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Cornwallis returned to America in July 1779, where he was to play a central role as the lead commander of the British "Southern strategy". At the end of 1779, Clinton and Cornwallis transported a large force south and initiated the second siege of Charleston during the spring of 1780, which resulted in the surrender of the Continental forces ...
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 .
Thomas Cornwallis (b. c. 1605 – d. c. 1675) was an English politician and colonial administrator.Cornwallis served as one of the first Commissioners of the Province of Maryland (Proprietary Colony of Maryland), and Captain of the colony's military during the early years of settlement.
After the Siege of Charleston, British General Lord Cornwallis took charge of the British forces in the Southern United States. [37] Victory in the Battle of Camden in 1780 reiterated British control over the South. [38] Cornwallis advanced his forces into North Carolina, depending on Loyalists to join his forces as he went, but few joined him.
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Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776. New York: Capricorn Books; Bridenbaugh, Carl (1964). Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625–1742. New York: Capricorn Books; Burton, E. Milby (1970). The Siege of Charleston, 1861–1865. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
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Edward Cornwallis (5 March [O.S. 22 February] 1713 – 14 January 1776) [1] was a British career military officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family, who reached the rank of Lieutenant General.