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"Guns and ships, and so the balance shifts":A Material Culture Analysis of Betsy and the British Naval Strategy of Scuttling during the Battle of Yorktown, 1781 (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. By the time General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781, the majority of his coveted shipping fleet laid abandoned at the bottom of the York River. In 1978, the Yorktown Shipwreck Archaeological Project was launched with the intention of surveying several of these...