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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 .
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull Charles, Earl Cornwallis (1738–1805) was a military officer who served in the British Army during the American War of Independence . He is best known for surrendering his army after the 1781 siege of Yorktown , an act that ended major hostilities in North America and led directly to peace ...
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis PC (29 March 1700 – 23 June 1762), styled The Honourable Charles Cornwallis until 1722 and known as The Lord Cornwallis between 1722 and 1753, was a British peer.
Cornwallis's essays, meditative in tone, cover such topics as ambition, resolution, youth, essays and books, and humility. [2] Like Montaigne's essays, they focus on self-analysis and self-improvement. [6] His is the earliest surviving essay attempting a defence of Richard III. His essays were popular during his lifetime and retained popularity ...
[g] American history books recount the legend that the British band played "The World Turn'd Upside Down", but the story may be apocryphal. [69] [70] Surrender of Cornwallis. At Yorktown, VA, Oct. 1781, Nathaniel Currier. D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Cornwallis refused to attend the surrender ceremony, claiming that he had an illness.
General O'Hara surrenders the sword of Lieutenant-General Cornwallis to Count de Rochambeau and General Washington. Anonymous engraving (ca. 1783) General Charles O'Hara (1740 – 25 February 1802) was a British Army officer who served in the Seven Years' War , the American War of Independence , and the French Revolutionary War and later served ...
Cornwallis took part in a number of decisive battles including the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, when he was 14, and the Battle of the Saintes but is best known as a friend of Lord Nelson and as the commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. He is depicted in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur.
British commander Lord Cornwallis had been unable to catch Nathanael Greene's army (in what historians now call the "Race to the Dan"), who strategically retreated using a screening feint column under Col. Otho Williams, to Dix's Ferry (present day Danville, VA) allowing Greene to cross the Dan River at Irwin's (Turbeville, VA) and Boyd's Ferry (South Boston, VA) and out of North Carolina.