Cornwallis is a western coastal settlement of West Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand and forms part of the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park, bordering the...
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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...
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William Cornwallis Symonds (1 August 1810 – 23 November 1841) was a British Army officer who was prominent in the early colonisation of New Zealand. Symonds...
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Base Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut Cornwallis, New Zealand, Auckland Region Cornwallis Beach Cornwallis Academy, Kent, England Cornwallis, West Virginia...
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November: William Cornwallis Symonds, prominent early colonist List of years in New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history History of New Zealand Military history...
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been living in New Zealand for some time. The missionary Henry Williams recommended the area around the Waitematā Harbour. William Cornwallis Symonds agreed...
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Council as part of New Zealand's Predator Free by 2050 target. Huia's volunteer fire brigade serves the communities of Cornwallis, Huia and Whatipu. The...
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Manukau Harbour (category Use New Zealand English from April 2024)
"Auckland's first settlement at Cornwallis 1835-1860". New Zealand Legacy. 19 (2): 15–18. "Auckland: Soldiers of fortune". The New Zealand Herald. 26 August 2010...
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Theophilus Heale (category Use New Zealand English from August 2014)
struggled. After the death of William Cornwallis Symonds in 1841, Heale became the main representative for the Cornwallis company in 1843, however the settlement...
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Pitt Island (redirect from Pitt Island, New Zealand)
in New Zealand's Chatham Islands, with an area of 65 square kilometres (25 sq mi). It lies about 770 kilometres (480 mi) to the east of New Zealand's main...
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1830s, Dudley invested in a logging and trading settlement at Cornwallis, New Zealand, hoping to remake the family fortune lost by John Sinclair by establishing...
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was sold to Captain William Cornwallis Symonds. Symonds formed a company to create a large-scale settlement at Cornwallis focused on logging, trading...
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watershed year in the history of New Zealand: The Treaty of Waitangi is signed, British sovereignty over New Zealand is proclaimed, organised European...
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success, British general Cornwallis was besieged by a Franco-American force in Yorktown in September and October 1781. Cornwallis was forced to surrender...
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Governor Holland, much to Cornwallis' dismay, engaged in negotiations with Tipu rather than mobilising the military. Cornwallis was on the brink of going...
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Symonds Street Cemetery (category Use New Zealand English from April 2024)
cemetery) is named for William Cornwallis Symonds, a British Army officer prominent in the early colonisation of New Zealand. It has a Historic Place – Category...
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William Hobson (category Use New Zealand English from April 2015)
officer in the British Royal Navy, who served as the first Governor of New Zealand. He was a co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi. Hobson was dispatched...
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The Sounds (TV series) (category 2020 New Zealand television series debuts)
coastal settlements of Huia and Cornwallis in the Waitākere Ranges, Auckland and at Whangaroa Harbour in Northland, New Zealand. It was a co-production of...
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Huntingdon (disambiguation) (section New Zealand)
district Huntingdon (Quebec provincial electoral district) Huntingdon, New Zealand, a lightly populated locality Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)...
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Charlotte Badger (category Settlers of New Zealand)
pId=24667 Convict Ship Earl Cornwallis 1801, Free Settler or Felon https://www.freesettlerorfelon.com/convict_ship_earl_cornwallis_1801.htm 'PIRATICAL CAPTURE...
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HMS Cornwallis was a Royal Navy 54-gun fourth rate. Jemsatjee Bomanjee built the Marquis Cornwallis of teak for the Honourable East India Company (EIC)...
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Charles Cornwallis Chesney (29 September 1826 – 19 March 1876) was a British soldier and military writer. Chesney was born in County Down, Ireland, the...
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claimant to the throne of England (d. 1788) 1738 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of...
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The first New Zealand Legislative Council, also known as the General Legislative Council, was established in 1841 when New Zealand was created as a Crown...
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Waitemata was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1871 to 1946, and then from 1954 to 1978. It was represented by 18 members of parliament. The...
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George Phillpotts (category Royal Navy personnel of the New Zealand Wars)
HMS Cornwallis on 3 August and took her in tow up the river to anchor off the batteries at Nanking. She stood in the river with HM Ships Cornwallis, Blonde...
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Waitakere City (category Use New Zealand English from April 2024)
authority in West Auckland, New Zealand; it was governed by the Waitakere City Council from 1989 to 2010. It was New Zealand's fifth-largest city, with an...
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shoal, on which the Rosaretta, a prize belonging to his Majesty's ship Cornwallis, was wrecked on her passage from Pisco, in Peru, to Port Jackson, in 1807”...
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Clipper route (section Australia and New Zealand)
sailed by clipper ships between Europe and the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. The route, devised by the Dutch navigator Hendrik Brouwer in 1611, reduced...
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Khyber Pass Road, and Mt Eden Road and New North Road. Symonds Street is named after Captain William Cornwallis Symonds (1810–41), an officer of the 96th...
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