During our visit we saw an encampment with tents behind the Yorktown Victory Center. We got to see a cooking demonstration using an earthen mound with holes in the bottom of it to cook food over. There was also a lecture on field medicine, surgery, and apothocary treatments (it was very nasty), but best of all, I got to help in an artillery demonstration. We couldn't set off the cannon we were pretending to fire, but the people who worked there could! After we showed how to set off a cannon, the people working there actually shot off a mortar with a loud BANG!
Not far from the Victory Center is the actual battlefield. You can still see the earthen battlements made by the soldiers. Visiting Yorktown was a gratifying conclusion to my studies of the American Revolution.
Wow, what fun! Those cannons are SOOOOO loud, and they always sort of come as a surprise, even when you know it is coming!
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Actually the first time the mortar went off I knew it was coming and it gave a soft bang. The other time it happened with another group of people, it was sooooooo loud you could probably hear it from miles around! I didn't see that one coming so it really scared me. Everyone else there were mainly school kids who screamed so loud when second mortar shot happened.
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Wyatt! That all sounded like such fun, I hope you enjoyed yourself! It was great having you all over and I can't wait to do it again.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you think of the tents? Could you imagine living in one of those for months and months.
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