Welcome to the America's March to Yorktown Website

A monumental task to establish a 600-mile Washington - Rochambeau Revolutionary Route was inaugurated on Dec. 16th, 2000 at Washington’s Headquarters in Newburgh, NY. This effort includes coordinating with Francophone commissions that unite French cultural groups with American veteran’s organizations, historical groups, and other volunteers to provide a Nationally recognized Historical Trail that would outline a self-guided auto route, hiking trails, visitors centers, appropriate signage, and associated literature. The literature and signage would include original campsites, historical sites and other local points of interest along the route.

The route commemorates a Franco-American campaign to immobilize the British in New York City and the ensuing victory at Yorktown over British General Charles Cornwallis which effectivily ended the Revolutionary war. Without this first alliance of the new American republic there would not have been that victory of liberty and democracy over tyranny. Washington’s special contribution was not just his capable leadership. Beyond changing governments, this monumental victory demonstrated that it was within human nature to decline absolute power and to work together for the common good.