Revolutionary War: Road to Yorktown

We are excited to offer an exclusive new tour: Revolutionary War: Road to Yorktown. This 9-day tour explores the final days of this epic American conflict, the battles that raged across the southern theater and the key players in that drama.

The American Revolution midwifed the birth of a new nation. Many battles immortalized by history—Bunker Hill, Trenton, Saratoga—took place in the northern colonies. But the southern campaign from Charleston, South Carolina to Yorktown, Virginia, was the final, decisive struggle. From a massive British victory in March 1780, their biggest of the war, to the surrender of an entire British army at Yorktown in September 1781, the ultimate days of the American Rebellion tell a tale of ferocity, incisive strategy, and rash opportunism that ends in a stunning turnabout.

This Revolutionary War tour follows this fascinating, often overlooked campaign. Battles large and small raged across the Carolinas and Virginia. British commander Lord Cornwallis strove to seize control of the south, leaning heavily on his talented and aggressive subordinate, Colonel Banastre Tarleton. George Washington sent generals Nathaniel Greene and Daniel Morgan south to face them. Hundreds of engagements and skirmishes, more than in any other part of the country, frequently involved local militias facing each other. From the swampy lowlands to the backcountry, bloody struggles resembling civil war pitted neighbor against neighbor, father against son.

At famous battlefields such as Cowpens and King’s Mountain, as well as lesser-known but crucial spots like Ninety-Six and Blackstock Plantation, we will walk the battle lines and meet the British soldiers and Loyalists seeking to vanquish the rebels, as well as the Patriots who thwarted Britain’s last attempt to win the war. Our historian will lead the group and conduct informal discussions throughout the tour as we learn more about the dramatic final campaign that led to the ultimate victory in the American Revolution.

Tour Highlights

Historians