Virginia was the venue of some of the greatest battles of the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.
Yorktown, located on the eastern coast of the state, was the site where the British Army under Lord Cornwallis was bottled up by the American Continental and French Armies and the French Navy and was obliged to surrender.
One cannot walk very far in Virginia without encountering a Civil War battlefield, where armies clad in blue and gray fought to determine the future of the United States, Battles include the First Bull Run, Second Bull Run, Petersburg, Cold Harbor, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania.
Many of these battlefields have become national parks and are well worth the visit.