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The next morning at seven o’clock the Virginia headed towards the Minnesota and was intercepted by the Monitor

1865 a heavy snow storm blanketed the countryside of Western Virginia and Maryland

by the fact that Jackson had a newly-born daughter he had not yet seen or by the barren conditions of Jackson’s own childhood

That night the Rangers had covered over 30 miles in rugged mountainous terrain as they quietly entered the outskirts of the city

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The World Turned Upside Down fishingline The next morning at sevenYorktown, Va., October 19, 1781 Finally, they had won. After more than six years of warfare, the War for Independence was endingand it was an American victory. So many times the cause of American freedom had seemed lost. So much hardship had been borne by these Continental troops, and so often General George Washington had kept them in the war equipped with little more than determination. Now, aligned before them was the fearsome British army that had