{"id":309628,"date":"2026-10-19T04:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309628\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T04:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:08:08","slug":"volunteers-gather-to-commemorate-the-battle-of-yorktown-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309628\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers gather to commemorate the Battle of Yorktown in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Scranton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Scranton<\/a> commemorated a historic battle on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At Courthouse Square in downtown Scranton, local veterans gathered before the statue of George Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event included a wreath-laying, songs, and a firing salute to commemorate the victory at Yorktown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 1781 victory on October 19th marked the final land battle in the American Revolution, with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the entire British army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The commemoration in scranton was held by American Legion District 11 and West Scranton American Legion Kosciuszko Post 207.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton commemorated a historic battle on Sunday. At Courthouse Square in downtown Scranton, local veterans gathered before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-309628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}