The National Park Service announced last Thursday that a $39,000 grant was awarded to help preserve the battlefield at Hayes where the historic Battle of the Hook took place during the Revolutionary War. The money is part of the American Battlefield Protection Program grants in Virginia for research and planning projects.

According to the NPS, the money will be used to conduct a battlefield survey using historical and archaeological research to discover the extent of the Hook battlefield for preservation planning.

The largest cavalry battle of the Revolutionary War, Lauzun’s Legion (French Army), along with members of the Virginia militia, refused the British access to the strategically important Gloucester Point area, according to the NPS. Without much-needed food and supplies, the Battle of the Hook played a role in Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown 16 days later.

According to the NPS, the study will guide the writing of a National Register of Historic Places nom...