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Cornwallis's force was also constantly suffering food shortages, and the earl ensured that officers and soldiers shared equally in the suffering. [90] Cornwallis was unable to intercept the arriving reinforcements, and learned that Greene had taken up a position at Guilford Courthouse on March 14, apparently ready to do battle. [91]
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 .
British General Charles Cornwallis ordered the burning of a Continental Army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg in 1781. What he hoped to destroy forever was recently found by archaeologists ...
Portrait of Lord Cornwallis is a 1783 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting the British general Charles, Earl Cornwallis. [ 1 ] Cornwallis had recently served in the American War of Independence where he commanded British and Loyalist American forces during the Southern Campaign.
The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull. The painting, which was completed in 1820, now hangs in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The painting depicts the surrender of British Lieutenant General Charles, Earl Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia , on October 19, 1781, ending the siege of ...
Kings Mountain National Military Park is a National Military Park near Blacksburg, South Carolina, along the North Carolina/South Carolina border. [4] [5] The park commemorates the Battle of Kings Mountain, a pivotal and significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War.
The Blackledge–Kearney House is located within the Palisades Interstate Park in the borough of Alpine in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.The historic stone house was built around 1750 and was documented as Cornwallis Headquarters by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1936. [3]