Yorktown Quotes

• Recordemos con devoción que la bandera que amamos y honramos es la bandera de la libertad que ondeó victoriosa en Yorktown, la bandera que los Marines de Estados Unidos izaron en el monte Suribachi, la bandera que Francis Scott Key vio al amanecer. Que ondee durante mucho tiempo.

  Ronald Reagan

  Marine, Keys, Light

  Estados Unidos. Presidente (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). "Ronald Reagan"

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• After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

  Ron Chernow

  Hero, Years, Becoming

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• The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

  Jack Adams

  Islands, News, Morale

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• Declaro que la guerra civil es inevitable y está cerca. Cuando llegue, los descendientes de los héroes de Lexington y Bunker Hill serán iguales en patriotismo, valor y resistencia heroica a los descendientes de los héroes de Cowpens y Yorktown. Por esta razón, predigo que la guerra civil que se avecina será obstinada y de larga duración.

  Sam Houston

  Guerra, Héroe, Manos

  Sam Houston (1943). "Los escritos de Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863"

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• When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

  Rachel Martin

  War, Loyal, Population

  "What Happened To British Loyalists After The Revolutionary War?". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2015.

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• 'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Drama, Adventure

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