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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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  • Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis (19 October 1774 – 9 August 1823), styled Viscount Brome until 1805, was a British Tory politician. He served...
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  • 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...
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  • Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis PC (28 December 1655 – 29 April 1698) was a British politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty and Lord...
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    Earl Cornwallis was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1753 for Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis. The second Earl was...
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    Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis PC (1675 – 20 January 1721/22) was a British politician. He was the son of Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis...
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    Jemima Cornwallis (24 December 1803, Brome, Suffolk – 2 July 1856, Dover Street, London), daughter of Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis, at St...
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  • Cornwallis (1632–1673), English landowner and politician Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis (1655–1698), British politician Charles Cornwallis,...
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    forces defeated a British force there under Lord Charles Cornwallis, and on October 17, Cornwallis raised a flag of truce after having suffered not only...
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    of Guards. He became Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis' second-in-command and good friend. During Cornwallis' pursuit of Major General Nathanael Greene...
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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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  • Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis of Eye (1632 – 13 April 1673) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660...
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    British General Charles Cornwallis, the Earl Cornwallis, was appointed in February 1786 to serve as both Commander-in-Chief of British India and Governor...
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    Sir Charles Cornwallis (died 1629) was an English courtier and diplomat. He was the second son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, controller of Queen Mary's household...
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    Edward Cornwallis (5 March [O.S. 22 February] 1713 – 14 January 1776) was a British career military officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family...
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    William Cornwallis, GCB (10 February 1744 – 5 July 1819) was a Royal Navy officer. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British...
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    December 1785) married Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis on 28 November 1722. They were the parents of General Cornwallis, who commanded the British...
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    famous as the site of the siege and subsequent surrender of General Charles Cornwallis to General George Washington and the French Fleet during the American...
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    James Cornwallis, 4th Earl Cornwallis (25 February 1743 – 20 January 1824) was a British clergyman and peer. He was the third son of Charles Cornwallis, 1st...
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    Princeton. Cornwallis arrived and was convinced by Grant and Carl von Donop to attack Trenton with their combined forces. By January 1, 1777, Cornwallis and...
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  • Charles Cornwallis was one of the two MPs for Eye between 1662 and 1675. Paula Watson (1983). "Cornwallis, Charles I (c.1619-75), of High Holborn, Mdx...
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    A 2,100-man British force under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis defeated Major General Nathanael Greene's 4,500 Americans. The British...
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    Television film 1991 Prime Suspect Michael 2 episodes 2003 Liberty's Kids Charles Cornwallis Voice, 1 episode 2008 Bernard and Doris Bernard Lafferty Television...
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    Washington and Cornwallis: The Battle for America, 1775–1783 (2017) pp. 301–330. Cornwallis to Clinton, 20th October, 1781, Cornwallis Papers, Public...
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    month of marching and countermarching in central Virginia by Cornwallis and Lafayette, Cornwallis in late June moved to Williamsburg, where he received orders...
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    the American front at Chadd's Ford. Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis took 10,000 troops on a wide flank march that crossed the creek and...
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    French Revolutionary calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace". The consequent peace...
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    Benedict Arnold after he had defected to the British, and of Lord Charles Cornwallis during the run-up to the siege of Yorktown. He fed the British false...
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    Charlie" Charles Edward Stuart (1720–1788), exiled claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805)...
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    British General Charles Cornwallis pursued Morgan during December 1781 and January 1782 with his army of 2,500 men. Morgan evaded Cornwallis to join General...
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