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National Geographic : 1964 Sep
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KODACHROMES BY BATES LITTLEHALES (ABOVE) AND EMORY KRISTOF lV N.G.0. Union Jack and silent cannon mark the battlefield at Yorktown, Virginia, where Lord Cornwallis surrendered his British forces at the climax of the Revolution. Today the region is part of Colonial National Historical Park. Hush of history pervades palisaded James Fort, Vir ginia's reconstruction of the first successful English set tlement in the Americas. Here the colonists lived in thatched houses plastered with clay and twigs. Sick ness and starvation decimat ed the pioneers; 66 of 104 died in the first eight months. Full-scale replicas of the Jamestown colonists' ships Susan Constant (left), God speed, and Discovery (not shown) tie up in a cove off James Fort. Incredibly crowded, the original three sailed into Chesapeake Bay and up the James River in May of 1607, after five stormy months at sea. 384
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