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27 de jun. de 2024 · Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis was a British soldier and statesman, probably best known for his defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, in the last important campaign (September 28–October 19, 1781) of the American Revolution. Cornwallis was possibly the most capable British general.
25 de jun. de 2024 · Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.
24 de jun. de 2024 · After a series of reverses and the depletion of his forces’ strength, the British commander in the southern colonies, General Lord Cornwallis, moved his army from Wilmington, North Carolina, eastward to Petersburg, Virginia, on the Atlantic coast, in May 1781.
24 de jun. de 2024 · Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis As it happened, Clinton did not insist that his cautious policy be executed in the southern states. He permitted Lord Cornwallis to embark upon aggressive adventures in the southern interior, for there were many loyalists in the Carolinas and Georgia , and the patriot forces were weak in ...
1 de jul. de 2024 · Camden was Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis's most important interior garrison and logistical supply depot. Camden was a small but strategically located crossroads town by the Wateree River and Catawba Indian Trail and was about 115 miles northwest of Charleston. Cornwallis was left with the task of capturing the rest of South Carolina.
26 de jun. de 2024 · October 19.—Be it remembered, that on the seventeenth of October, 1781, Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis, with above five thousand British troops, surrendered prisoners of war to his Excellency General George Washington, commander-in-chief of the allied forces of France and America!
19 de jun. de 2024 · Then Three of the Lords Commissioners, being seated on a Form placed between the Throne and the Woolsack; the Earl Cornwallis in the Middle; with the Lord Berkeley of Straton on his Right Hand; and the Lord Bathurst on his Left; commanded the Deputy Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to let the Commons know, "The Lords Commissioners desire their ...
