Yorktown (Alternity)



Yorktown is the largest city in the U.S. state of Erie, the sixth most populous city in the United States, and the seat of Yorktown County. With a population of 2,075,000 and a metropolitan population of just under 3.5 million, it is is the center of the Yorktown-Aurora-Mississauga Metropolitan Area, and a major commercial seaport, with ships from all over the Great Lakes and even the Atlantic from as far away as Europe docking here.

The region was first purchased by the British from the native Mississauga in 1787, and the town of York was established on the shore of Lake Ontario in 1793 by the first Lt. Governor of British Upper Canada, John G. Simcoe. In the War of 1812, in late April 1813, American forces under the command of Brigadier General Zebulon Pike led a successful attack on York and occupied the city for the duration of the war. Following the Treaty of Ghent, and the subsequent transfer of southwestern Upper Canada to the United States, the city was renamed Yorktown and established as the capital of the newly-established Lakes' Territory.