Lost Chapters
Yorktown: Quartz Location
Yorktown, Virginia, was founded in 1691 as a tobacco port on the York River. It is best known as the place where British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington on October 19, 1781, and today its battlefield is part of Colonial National Historical Park.
- Cost
- 7 crystals
- Type
- Location · City
- Color
- Quartz (Founders & Revolution)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
Your characters get +2/+0.
Decisive battlefield victory that combined French naval power, American determination, and one very surprised British general.
The real history
Yorktown was founded in 1691 under the Act for Ports, passed by Virginia's General Assembly to regulate trade and collect taxes. Fifty acres on the York River were bought from Benjamin Read for 10,000 pounds of tobacco and cask. The town became a busy tobacco port, shipping crops from nearby plantations and receiving goods such as clothing, wine, furniture and silver. At its peak, between 1740 and 1770, it had several hundred buildings and almost 2,000 residents, rivaling nearby Williamsburg. Its people included merchants, planters, shopkeepers, servants and enslaved people.
In 1781 British General Lord Cornwallis made Yorktown a base. American and French forces under George Washington besieged the town for several weeks, and the fighting caused heavy damage. On the afternoon of October 18, officers met to settle the terms at the Moore House, which belonged to the merchant and planter Augustine Moore. The location was outside the line of fire and had not been damaged. On October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered about 8,300 British, German and Loyalist troops, ending the final major battle of the American Revolution.
Yorktown never recovered its old importance. By 1790 only 661 people lived there, in fewer than 70 buildings. A fire in 1814 and the Civil War siege of 1862 brought more damage. Today the town and battlefield are part of Colonial National Historical Park, which also includes Historic Jamestowne and the 23-mile Colonial Parkway.
Sources
- Historic Yorktown, National Park Service, Yorktown Battlefield
- The Moore House, National Park Service
- Virginia: Colonial National Historical Park, National Park Service
How the card plays
Yorktown costs 7 crystals and is a Quartz Location. Its text reads: your characters get +2/+0. That is a huge attack boost for every character you control, so one turn with Yorktown in play can swing a whole game.
Wait until you have a wide board, then play it and attack in the same turn with everything that is ready. Characters that already have Swift are the best partners, since they can use the extra power right away. Paul Revere, Paul Revere, has Swift and Explore and gives your other characters Swift when he enters. Siege of Yorktown, the Siege of Yorktown, clears up to 2 cheap blockers first. John Paul Jones, John Paul Jones, is a 6/6 who becomes an 8/6 with it.
- Playable in decks led by George Washington, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Quartz.
- In the Washington starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-BhoCgAKBAYIBgwGEAYUBhgKHAYgBiQGKAYsBjAKNAY4BjwGQAZEBkgGTAZQBlQGWAZcBmAGZAZoCmwGcAZ0BngGfAaABoQFBjA - A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
Questions about Yorktown
When was Yorktown, Virginia founded?
In 1691, when Virginia's General Assembly passed the Act for Ports to create trading towns. Yorktown grew into a major tobacco port.
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