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| | MSN Encarta - Charles Cornwallis |
 | | Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis (1738-1805), British general and statesman, whose defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, was decisive in ending the American Revolution. | | | After the war Cornwallis returned to Britain, and in 1786 he was appointed governor-general and commander in chief in India. | | | In 1760 he was elected to the House of Commons, and two years later, having inherited the title Earl Cornwallis, he entered the House of Lords. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Cornwallis was then commissioned British minister plenipotentiary and helped to draw up the Treaty of Amiens (1802), which temporarily halted the war with Napoleonic France. | | | In 1798, Cornwallis was sent to Ireland as viceroy and commander in chief, and he was stern in repressing the rebellion there in the same year. | | | He worked to achieve the Act of Union (1800), which initiated the unhappy experiment of uniting the Irish and British parliaments, but he resigned (1801) with William Pitt when George III refused to accept Catholic Emancipation. |
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| | Story - Honorable Edward Cornwallis |
| | Cornwallis later regained the confidence of the government and was appointed a Major-General on February 12th., 1757. | | | During this time of national discontent, Cornwallis appears to have secured the favor of the King and ministry of the day, for in 1745, he obtained the post at court of Groom of His Majesty's Bed Chamber, and before the close of the year, he was gazetted Lieutenant Colonel of the 20th. | | | Edward Cornwallis is sometimes confused with his nephew Charles, Lord Cornwallis, who led the British forces in the American Revolutionary War. |
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| | General Charles Cornwallis |
| | In 1785, Cornwallis was Envoy to the Court of Frederick the Great of Prussia. | | | British General and colonial governor Charles Cornwallis was born on Dec. 31, 1738, and died on Oct. 5, 1805. | | | On succeeding to his father's title as 2d Earl in 1762, Cornwallis became active politically with the Whigs and took his seat in the House of Lords where his abilities and connections led to appointments as Aide-de-Camp to the King, Chief Circuit Court Justice south of the Trent River, and Joint Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. |
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| | BBC - h2g2 - General Lord Charles Cornwallis - A595208 |
| | Cornwallis, his health now failing, chose to retire to his country estate in Brome, Suffolk, England, after a lifelong dedication to his country. | | | In 1785, after serving his time in the wilderness, he was appointed to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia, as an envoy. | | | Due to the death of his father, he now became Earl Cornwallis and took his seat by birthright, in the House of Lords. |
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| | Charles Cornwallis |
| | Cornwallis served as minister plenipotentiary during the negotiation of the Treaty of Amiens (1802), which brought a cessation in the Napoleonic Wars. | | | In 1760, Cornwallis was elected to the House of Commons; two years later he inherited his father’s earldom and entered the House of Lords as Earl Cornwallis. | | | In frustration, Cornwallis resigned his commission, but his resignation was not accepted. |
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| | British Biographies |
| | Cornwallis was granted leave to go visit his wife in England. | | | At the death of his father, Cornwallis temporarily set aside the military and served in Parliament. | | | Cornwallis moved into South Carolina where defeated the American army, led by General Gates, at Camden. |
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
| | Cornwallis’ commission and instructions stipulated that he was to enact laws only with the consent of a council and a house of assembly, but the Board of Trade recognized that under the existing circumstances the calling of an assembly was impossible. | | | A captain in the 8th Foot by 1734, Cornwallis acted as a courier for the diplomatic service between 1738 and 1743 and became major of the 20th Foot in 1742. | | | Following a tour of duty in Ireland, he was promoted lieutenant-general in 1760 and became governor of Gibraltar in 1762. |
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| | CHARLES, EARL CORNWALLIS by Janie B. Cheaney |
| | Young Charles's grandfather was awarded a baronetcy for faithful service to King Charles II; his father, also named Charles, was the first Earl Cornwallis; his uncle served as Archbishop of Canterbury; his mother was a daughter of Lord Townshend and a niece of Robert Walpole, one of England's great Prime Ministers. | | | Cornwallis consistently voted against harsh measures toward the colonies, such as the Stamp Act, even when only a handful of his peers joined him. | | | Cornwallis moved quickly to set up outposts in Georgetown, Camden, and Ninety-six, forming a rough arch through South Carolina. |
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| | Reader's Companion to Military History - - Cornwallis, Charles |
| | Cornwallis marched to the Chesapeake to seek a decisive battle in Virginia and to cover the Carolinas. | | | Although surprised by George Washington's crossing of the Delaware and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777), he outflanked Washington's defensive position at the Battle of Brandywine (September 11, 1777). | | | He became major general in 1775, served under Sir Henry Clinton during the American Revolution in the successful campaign to capture New York (1776), and led the pursuit across New Jersey. |
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| | Cornwallis subdued Ireland and attempted to unify the Irish and British Parliaments, but his attempts were cut short when George III refused to permit catholic emancipation. | | | During the Revolution Cornwallis captured Brandywine, New Jersey, and Philadelphia within the first two years of the revolution. | | | Afterwards Cornwallis returned to Inia where he eventually died. |
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| | People of the Revolution |
| | After Yorktown, Lafayette was the "diplomatic aide-de-camp" to Benjamin Franklin in Paris and continued to voice American interests to the French government. | | | After General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia in October 1781, Arnold and his family sailed back to England with Cornwallis. | | | When Charles Scott had to go home because of family problems in the Fall of 1778, Tallmadge was promoted once again and began to report directly to Washington. |
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| | Charles Cornwallis Biography / Biography of Charles Cornwallis Biography Biography |
| | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), was a British soldier and statesman. | | | Although remembered best because of his defeat at Yorktown in the American Revolution, Cornwallis was more often successful in his military activities in India and Ireland. | | | His rise to positions of military and political influence was rapid: he went to the House of Commons from the family borough in 1760, became a lieutenant colonel of the 12th Regiment the following year, and upon the death of his father the next year joined the Lords as the 2d Earl Cornwallis. |
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| | UNC-TV ONLINE: Voices of Freedom |
| | General Charles Cornwallis: January-March, Nathanael Greene leads General Charles Cornwallis and his forces on a chase through South and North Carolina. | | | After Cowpens, Cornwallis proceeded to Guilford Court House, where he lost many men to North Carolina's forces led by Nathanael Greene. | | | After Cornwallis left North Carolina on his way to Yorktown, Greene and other North Carolinians reclaimed several cities and ports from British control. |
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| | The World Turned Upside Down - Charles Cornwallis |
| | Cornwallis was devastatingly effective during the early years of the Revolution. | | | of the British Parliament, Lord Charles Cornwallis opposed nearly all of the British policies that led to the American Revolution. | | | Washington did get the best of Cornwallis in the winter of 1776-1777 at Princeton, New Jersey. |
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| | YORKTOWN |
| | After the war in 1786, Cornwallis was appointed Governor / General and Commander in Chief in India. | | | Cornwallis did not serve this title very long because he died on October 5, 1805. | | | In 1760, Cornwallis was elected into the House of Commons and two years later earned the title of Earl Cornwallis. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cornwallis Charles 1st Marquess Cornwallis |
| | Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), British general and statesman, whose defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, was decisive... | | | Charles I (of England): Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess and 8th Earl of | | | Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of (1845-1927), British statesman, born January 14, 1845 in London. |
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| | George Washington Papers: Time Line: The American Revolution - 1781 |
| | May 24, British General Charles Cornwallis encamps with troops on the Virginia plantation of William Byrd. | | | January-March, Nathanael Greene (who took command of the Southern Army at Charlotte, North Carolina, December 2, 1780) leads General Charles Cornwallis and his forces on a chase through South and North Carolina. | | | October 19, a British fleet leaves New York harbor to come to the aid of Cornwallis in Virginia. |
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| | General Charles Cornwallis |
| | One of his responsibilities as Earl of Cornwallis was to accept a seat in the House of Lords, one of the houses of Parliament. | | | Cornwallis and his troops chased the continentals into New Jersey but stopped when ordered to by his superior, General William Howe. | | | He and his troops were able to defeat General George Washington and his rebel army on Long Island in August 1776. |
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| | In June of 1780 Cornwallis defeated Horatio Gates in South Carolina. | | | Washington outmaneuvered Cornwallis and then defeated him at Princeton. | | | Following this battle, Clinton sailed back to New York, leaving Cornwallis in charge of 8,000 men to carry on the British southern campaign. |
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| | The American Revolution (Eutaw Springs) |
| | General Cornwallis had been trying to subdue the Southern colonies by working his way north from Charleston, South Carolina. | | | Washington's only reaction was to ask him to surrender to his deputy, Maj. General Benjamin Lincoln. | | | He spent the next couple of months maneuvering against the Marquis de Lafayette, engaging his army on July 6. |
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| | Charles Cornwallis |
| | Cornwallis was elected to the House of Commansin 1760 and entered the House of Lords in 1762 in parliament he was known as friend of the American colonist.In October 1781 his army encamped at Yorktown was trapped by combined American and French forces by forced to surrender.Lord Cornwallis was son to Charles first Earl Cornwallis. | | | by Brian V. and Chad H. Charles Cornwallis was born in 1738,in Great Britain. | | | His defeat at the hands of General George Washington, at Yorktown was the deciding battle in the Revolutionary War.Charles Cornwallis attended Eton and Cambridge before entering the army. |
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| | CHARLESCORNWALIS |
| | Cornwallis was the only senior British general who was not blamed for the loss of the American colonies. | | | After the war, he had a distinguished career, and served as governor-general of British India, where he died. | | | This eventually led him to the surrender at Yorktown. |
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| | AMAsearchdetail |
| | Cornwallis served Britain as both a soldier and statesman in Germany, Ireland, and India. | | | He is known in the United States, however, for his defeat at the Siege of Yorktown. | | | After the war, he returned to Britain and continued working as a civil servant. |
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| | Cornwallis free essays |
| | I entered the House of Commons in 1760 and two years later, when my father died, I became Earl Cornwallis and was elected to the House of Lords (Summary 1). | | | During this time I served in the British Army where I was an aide-de-camp in Germany. | | | How did the battle of York Town, Virginia |
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| | LIBERTY! . Chronicle of the Revolution . Yorktown 1781 PBS |
| | Cornwallis limped into Virginia in late summer trailed by a force led by the The Marquis de Lafayette, long a supporter of American efforts both as a soldier in this country, and as an advocate for the cause in France. | | | But Rochambeau directed O'Hara to American General George Washington, who coolly steered the British officer to Washington's own second in command, Major General Benjamin Lincoln. | | | Cornwallis' surrender ended a disastrous southern campaign for the British army. |
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| | Leaders and Battles: Cornwallis, Charles |
| | After accepting the appointment of major general, he led his army to victory at Long Island, Brandywine, and Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War. | | | He then endured his most bitter victory at Guilford Court House. | | | As his military career waned, Cornwallis returned to his governorship of India. |
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| | Yorktown: The Wars End |
| | After that he succeeded his father's title of second earl and became politically active with the Whigs in the House of Lords. | | | He had established himself at Yorktown on the Virginia peninsula, after having failed to destroy the American army of General Nathaniel Greene in the Carolinas. | | | Charles Cornwallis was a British General as well as a colonial governor. |
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| | Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown by Charles Willson Peale |
| | In enthusiastic response, the Maryland House of Delegates asked Governor Thomas Sim Lee to commission Maryland-born Charles Willson Peale to paint a portrait of colonial America's hero, General Washington. | | | Washington called Tilghman a "zealous Servant and slave to the public, and a faithful assistant to me for near five years." (Papers of George Washington, Letter to Sullivan, May 11, 1781). | | | Washington, Lafayette and Tilghman at Yorktown by Charles Willson Peale |
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| | Charles Cornwallis |
| | As Commander-in-Chief (Governor General) in India from 12 September, 1786 to 28 October, 1793 he established the permanent settlement and administrative and judicial systems of the East India Company government in Bengal. | | | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis, Viscount Brome, Baron Cornwallis of Eye, had a long and distinguished career as a soldier and officer of the Crown. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Charles I (of England) |
| | Charles I (of England) (1600-1649), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625-1649), who was deposed and executed during the English Revolution. | | | United Kingdom : pictures of the United Kingdom: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquis Cornwallis | | | Elected to the English Parliament in 1614, Sir John Eliot became a leader in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I. In 1628 Eliot was one of... |
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| | Cornwallis lost a quarter of his army and almost a third of his officers. | | | Charles, Earl Cornwallis, commanded the tough professional force of 1,900 British soldiers. | | | With greatly diminished ranks and depleted supplies, Cornwallis withdrew to the coast, 200 miles away. |
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| | Charles III -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | A distinguished British nobleman and Army officer, Charles Cornwallis, also known as Lord Cornwallis, became famous for his surrender at Yorktown, Va., that ended the American Revolution. | | | He was an able general and a brilliant war strategist, but lack of cohesion with his superior officers led to his military shortcomings and ultimately to the British defeat... | | | In 1285 Charles received the Valois countship from his father, Philip… |
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| | Term Papers on Charles Cornwallis - Term Papers Lab |
| | The BeginningOn December 31, 1738, Charles Cornwallis was born the second Earl Cornwallis, sincehis father, the fifth Baron Cornwallis, had been rewarded as a Viscount and the first EarlCornwallis. | | | Cornwallis was educated at Eton and moved in elite socialcircles.In 1756, about a month before his eighteenth birthday, Cornwallis purchased an ensign'scommission in the Grenadier Guards and then took the extraordinary measure ofattending a military school in Turin, Italy to actually study for the position. | | | This is a free excerpt of our Charles Cornwallis term paper. |
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| | Bio Notes: Lord Cornwallis |
| | When Howe resigned, he became second-in-command to Sir Henry Clinton, a post he retained until he surrendered his command after the siege at Yorktown. | | | This on-going feud had less-than-subtle effects on the conduct of the war itself. | | | Cornwallis even provided Tarleton with monetary assistance during his early financial troubles. |
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| | Printer version: Arguments for the Ages: Charles Cornwallis |
| | He served in the British Army as a young man and later became a member of Parliament, where he opposed some of the policies that helped inspire the revolt in the American colonies. | | | Editor's note: Gen. Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) was second in command of British forces in America during the final years of the Revolutionary War. | | | The defeat ended the war but not the general's career; he went on to serve as governor-general of India and commander-in-chief in Ireland. |
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| | British Historical Medals #373 |
| | In 1776 he was sent with reinforcements to North America where he subdued New Jersey; he occupied Philadephia in the following year. | | | Cornwallis was transferred to India at his own request and he took command at Calcutta in 1786. | | | WM N. Charles, first Marquis and second Earl Cornwallis (1738-1805). |
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| | Important People in the Revolutionary War |
| | Led the Americans at Saratoga but was soundly defeated at Camden. | | | Commander of the Continental forces in the South; his strategy of fighting a defensive war and retreating to fight again forced Cornwallis back toward Virginia and Yorktown. | | | Young Frenchman who earned a command under Washington and played a role in getting the French aid that was crucial to the victory at Yorktown. |
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| | Find in a Library: Lord Cornwallis : British general |
| | Find in a Library: Lord Cornwallis : British general | | | To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country. | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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| | Merriam-Webster Online |
| | 1st Marquis 1738-1805 Charles Cornwallis British general & statesman; during U.S. War of Independence, won many victories but forced to yield at Yorktown (1781); governor-general of India (1768-93, 1805); viceroy of Ireland (1798-1801) | | | Now you can take the Eleventh Edition with you anywhere as Franklin's new Speaking Electronic Handheld! | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "Cornwallis" |
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| | Charles Cornwallis was born December 31, 1738, in London, England. | | | Cornwallis did not approve of the events that led to the Revolutionary War but he accepted the position of major general in command of the British forces. | | | With the help of the French, the Patriot forces won the battle at Yorktown and giving the colonist the freedom they were fighting for. |
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| | Today in History: October 19 |
| | Cornwallis had marched his army into the Virginia port town earlier that summer expecting to meet British ships sent from New York. | | | The residence saw wartime action again during the Civil War, when it was used as a hospital. | | | This 1781 map, drawn by a military officer, shows the positions of the British, American, and French forces in early October 1781. |
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| | I3847: Charles Cornwallis Johnston (1817 - ) |
| | He Was Born Two Months After His Father's Death. | | | Charles Cornwallis Johnston and Letitia Margaret White had the following children | | | Descendants of Charles Cornwallis Johnston and Letitia Margaret White |
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| | KINGS MTN & COWPENS BATTLES |
| | Cornwallis House in which Cornwallis resided at Winnsboro. | | | General Charles Cornwallis from the American Revolution Homepage. | | | Cornwallis Headquarters, old engraving of building used as Cornwallis' HG in Charlotte. |
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| | CHARLES CORNWALLIS CHESNEY - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES CORNWALLIS CHESNEY |
| | (1826-1876), British soldier and military writer, the third son of Charles Cornwallis Chesney, captain on the retired list of the Bengal Artillery, and nephew of General F. Chesney, was born in Co. Down, Ireland, on the 29th of September 1826. | | | He had become lieutenant-colonel in 1873, and at the time of his death he was commanding Royal Engineer of the London district. | | | To properly cite this CHARLES CORNWALLIS CHESNEY article in your work, copy the complete reference below: |
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| | NPG 3200; Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis |
| | Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis (1675-1722), Whig politician. | | | Artist associated with 945 portraits, Sitter associated with 16 portraits. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Washington and Cornwallis : The Battle for America, 1775-1783 |
| | In this engaging military history of the American Revolution, journalist Patterson (Harold and William) covers all the major campaigns and battles of the conflict, from the American siege of Boston in 1775 to the climactic surrender of Yorktown in 1781. | | | His army perpetually outnumbered and outclassed by the Redcoats, Washington struggled with shortages of money, weapons, food and men (who simply went home when their brief enlistments expired) while fending off plots by enemies in the Continental Congress and soothing his touchy French allies. | | | Amazon.com: Books: Washington and Cornwallis : The Battle for America, 1775-1783 |
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| | SC Historical Society: By the Right Honourable Charles Earl Cornwallis, Lieutenant-general of His Majesty's forces, &c. |
| | SC Historical Society: By the Right Honourable Charles Earl Cornwallis, Lieutenant-general of His Majesty's forces, &c. | | | By the Right Honourable Charles Earl Cornwallis, Lieutenant-general of His Majesty's forces, andc. | | | Given under my hand and seal, at head quarters, in the district of Wacsaw, in the said province, the sixth day of September, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty, in the twentieth year of His Majesty's reign. |
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