One of the two real Dahlgren guns submerged in a preservative chemical bath. DW5D4320
The Monitor's anchor is a unique four-fluke design custom made for the ship. It was the first large Monitor artifact recovered from the wreck. DW5D4325
Robbie Smith, from the National Park Service, was our personal guide to the historic Yorktown battlefield's history. This battle, while not the last in the Revolutionary war, was the most pivotal. British General Cornwallis' 7,000 professionally trained troops were soundly defeated by the "unprepared and inferior numbers of the amateur and uncoordinated Colonial militia." The combined forces of General Washington's Continental army plus 5,000 French troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau, and with help from General La Fayette and his men, a force of 17,000 strong had beleaguered and trounced Cornwallis' unsuccessful siege of this area, destroying Cornwallis' chance of capturing the Williamsburg area, then capital of Virginia at that time. We would again meet Robbie in the Towne of Yorke, later that day, posted to another station at the Thomas Nelson Jr. house. DW5D4151
