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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and the United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence .
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, was a British general, civil administrator, and diplomat.His early career was primarily military in nature, including a series of well-known campaigns during the War of American Independence from 1776 to 1781 that culminated in his surrender at Yorktown.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis participated in many campaigns in North America. He served under Howe and Clinton in the New York and Philadelphia campaigns and was given control of the southern army by Clinton after the Siege of Charleston. At first successfully driving the Continentals from South Carolina, he was eventually forced ...
The Battle of Cowan's Ford took place in the Southern Theater of Cornwallis's 1780–1782 Campaign during the American Revolutionary War.It was fought on February 1, 1781, at Cowan's Ford on the Catawba River in northwestern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, between a force of about 2,400 British and about 800 Whig (Patriot) militia who were attempting to slow the British advance across the ...
General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, a portrait by John Singleton Copley. The British gained control of New York Harbor and the surrounding agricultural areas, and held New York City and Long Island until the war ended in 1783.
The first column, under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, consisted of several companies of Hessian jägers; three battalions of Hessian and one of British grenadiers; mounted Hessian chasseurs; and some British dragoons from the 16th Light Dragoons, a battalion from the Brigade of Guards, and the Loyalist provincial unit of ...
Cornwallis also played an important role in the Battle of Germantown on 4 October, bringing up reinforcements late in the battle. [32] When Howe sought to gain control over the Delaware River approaches to Philadelphia, Cornwallis was sent into New Jersey in November to secure Fort Mercer after a failed Hessian assault .
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