B. _Rochambeau’s Headquarters Site._ Rochambeau commanded the French Army under Washington. C. _Washington’s Headquarters Site._ This is reached by a spur road from the main tour drive. The ford, restored to use as it was in 1781, is safe for vehicular travel. D. _French Cemetery._ This is thought to be the burial site of a number of the French soldiers killed during the siege. E. _French Artillery Park._ This was a place for repairing and storing cannon. Existing ground evidences indicate the manner in which carriages were parked. F. _French Army Encampment._ [Illustration: _The French Cemetery in the battlefield encampment area. The cross marks the traditional burial site._] G. _British Outer Works._ Cornwallis constructed several positions between the headwaters of Yorktown and Wormley Creeks as a part of his outer line. One of these has been partly reconstructed and is visible from the tour road. Another is _an original position which remains undisturbed_. A spur road from the main tour route gives access to it in the area known as “Long Neck.” 14. GRAND FRENCH BATTERY. This position was the largest and one of the most effective in the First Allied Siege Line. A part of it, including gun platforms and magazines (powder and ammunition storage points), has been reconstructed. The artillery now mounted here (a trench mortar, siege cannon, mortars, and howitzers) are types used in the Revolutionary period. Some of the pieces were actually used at Yorktown during the siege. 15. NATIONAL CEMETERY. Established in 1866, this is chiefly a burial ground for Union soldiers killed in the vicinity in the Civil War. 16. SECOND ALLIED SIEGE LINE. This is another point on the same encircling line that came to include British Redoubts Nos. 9 and 10. 17. YORKTOWN. The tour now enters Yorktown proper where the British army was encamped and in which it made its stand. The old Civil War line rings the town today and under it is the British line of 1781. [Illustration: _The figure of “Liberty” atop the Yorktown Victory Monument. Sculptured by Oskar J. W. Hansen._] [Illustration: _The Nelson House where Cornwallis may have had his headquarters in the last days of the siege._] A. _Site of Secretary Nelson’s House._ Here Cornwallis had his headquarters when the siege opened. He remained until allied artillery forced him out. Secretary Thomas Nelson was, for many years, Secretary of the Colony of Virginia. The site has been marked by the Yorktown Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. B. _Victory Monument._ Authorized by Congress in 1781, the shaft was not begun until 1881 (completed 3 years later) as a part of the Yorktown Centennial Celebration. The original figure of “Liberty” was damaged by lightning in 1942 and replaced by a new figure in 1956.