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	Charles Cornwallis - MSN Encarta
		Cornwallis was born in London on December 31, 1738, and educated at Eton College and the University of Cambridge.
		Cornwallis generally opposed the policies that led to the American Revolution, but in 1775 he accepted a military command as a major general.
		Cornwallis was responsible for the British victory at Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania, in September 1777, and later in the same month he occupied Philadelphia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558459/Charles_Cornwallis.html (461 words)

	CORNWALLIS, CHARLES CORNWALLIS, 1ST MARQUESS. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Cornwallis was not held responsible for the disaster and in 1786 became governor-general of India.
		In 1798, Cornwallis was sent to Ireland as viceroy and commander in chief, and he was stern in repressing the rebellion there in the same year.
		Cornwallis was then commissioned British minister plenipotentiary and helped to draw up the Treaty of Amiens (1802), which temporarily halted the war with Napoleonic France.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/co/Cornwallis.html (316 words)

	General Cornwallis
		Cornwallis was the better field commander, but he had often felt caged and hemmed in by his superior.
		Cornwallis did not take such partisan bands seriously at first, but he was rather alarmed to hear that two regiments of the Continental army were on their way south to form the core of new "Southern Department." As summer progressed, this army had swollen to over 3000 regulars and volunteers.
		Cornwallis was so mortified that he claimed to be ill and sent his second-in-command, Brigadier General Charles O'Hara, to hand over his sword to the enemy.
	members.tripod.com /billbrasky/amrev/cornwallis.htm (3016 words)

	Wikinfo \| South Shetland Islands
		The islands were discovered by the British explorer William Smith on 19th February, 1819 and claimed in the name of King George III.
		The first landing on the islands was made on the largest of the South Shetlands, King George Island by the same man on 16th October that year.
		Sealing and whaling took place on the islands in the 19th and early 20th century, but the islands have only been occupied since the establishment of a scientific research station in 1944.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=South_Shetland_Islands (325 words)

	Exploring Maryland's Roots: Library: Thomas Cornwallis (c. 1605-1675/76)
		Thomas Cornwallis was one of the first investors in the colony of Maryland and one of its leading men.
		Cornwallis was involved in several naval battles over Kent Island in 1635 and in 1638 he led an expedition that took control of the island for the Calvert family.
		Ultimately, Cornwallis returned to England, but his early role in Maryland as an investor as well as a political and military leader was important to the colony’s success.
	mdroots.thinkport.org /library/thomascornwallis.asp (444 words)

	The Patriot Resource: Charles Earl Cornwallis
		Cornwallis' first action was at the Battle of Fort Sullivan, serving as Lt.
		However, as Cornwallis was settling down for winter quarters, Washington claimed victory at Trenton on December 26, 1776.
		Cornwallis saw action at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777 and at the Battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777.
	www.patriotresource.com /people/cornwallis/summary.html (569 words)

	General Charles Cornwallis
		Cornwallis was the eldest son of the 1st Earl Cornwallis.
		Cornwallis attended the military academy at Turin, and while serving in Germany during the Seven Years' War rose to Lieutenant Colonel.
		Cornwallis was largely responsible for the British victory at Brandywine, Pa., Sept. 11, 1777, and led British forces into Philadelphia on the 28th.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/CORN.HTM (610 words)

	Cornwallis Island
		It is separated from SOMERSET ISLAND to the south by Barrow Strait.
		The island is generally flat, though there are prominent (400 m) cliffs along the east coast.
		It was discovered by Sir William PARRY in 1819 and named for Sir William Cornwallis.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0001934 (126 words)

	Charles Cornwallis
		Charles Cornwallis was born in London and educated at Eton and Cambridge.
		Cornwallis was impatient with Howe’s lack of initiative and was later similarly critical of Sir Henry Clinton.
		Cornwallis served as minister plenipotentiary during the negotiation of the Treaty of Amiens (1802), which brought a cessation in the Napoleonic Wars.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1304.html (695 words)

	Little Cornwallis Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is located at 75°30'N 96°30'W, between Cornwallis Island and Bathurst Island, and measures 412 square kilometers.
		In 1960 a vast concentration of zinc and lead was discovered on the island during mapping for oil permits.
		A mining facility was constructed on a barge at Trois-Rivières, Quebec and towed to the island in late 1980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_Cornwallis_Island (260 words)

	McNabs Island On Destination: Nova Scotia
		There is evidence that the French first surveyed MacNab's Island as early as 1711, building rudimentary fortifications on the island and naming it "Ils de Chibouquetou." Within twenty-one years, it was known as Scarborough Island, then Cornwallis Island in honour of Edward Cornwallis after the founding of Halifax in 1749.
		The Mi'kmaq used the island as a summer camp until approximately 1760, although the land had been given to Govenor Cornwallis' brothers as part of a land grant in 1752.
		Part of the island is known as Deadman's Beach, possible named for the British practice of hanging pirates and disobedient sailors on the island, tarring their bodies to preserve them, and leaving them for other sailors to view as a reminder to abide by military regulations.
	www.destination-ns.com /common/places.asp?PlaceID=1261 (502 words)

	CHARLES, EARL CORNWALLIS by Janie B. Cheaney
		(Cornwallis had served under Clinton at Charleston and in New York and the two men got along well, a happy situation which was soon to change.)
		Cornwallis returned to England on leave, only to find his wife Jemima gravely ill. This distracted him from military affairs for several weeks, but when she died early in 1779 he found that life held little else for him.
		Cornwallis worked out a plan to deal with it: Colonel Tarleton, with his own cavalry plus two regiments of light infantry, would chase Morgan eastward and either destroy the Americans or run them into the main British command under Cornwallis.
	jrshelby.com /kimocowp/cornwal.htm (3049 words)

	Oceanic tropical private island for sale
		An oceanic Island situated in the tropics, totally virgin and unexploited, to be developed as a project of a touristic centre of highest standards for the most priviliged clients in the world.
		Planning permission for the island is for a world class casino, villas of the highest prestige, bungalows, appropriate restaurants, a shopping complex, boutiques, discotheque etc, price on application.
		An island paradise with a sea-front setting below a nature reserve on the West (lee) shore of Carriacou in the Caribbean Grenadines.
	www.antibes.co.uk /stratos/island.for.sale (825 words)

	Friends of McNab's Island Society
		The notice also claimed that about one-half of the island was covered with hardwood, that an abundance of fish could be found around the shores of the island and large quantities of ballast stone from the beaches were sold annually.
		McNabs Island: This favorite locality for summer excursions is likely to be adopted as the resort of persons wishing to remove their families from the dust and heat of the town during the hot weather....
		A number of factors encouraged Lyttleton to leave the island, but none were more important than the loss of his house on the island in a fire in December of 1866, and the fear of a cholera epidemic which gripped Halifax during the summer of 1866.
	www.mcnabsisland.ca /history/hist-s4.html (3380 words)

	Resolute Bay
		Resolute Bay is the most northern point in Arctic Canadian to which you can take a commercial flight, and it functions as both a residence and a point of departure for business farther north (mining, exploration, adventure, hunting, or research, for example).
		While we waited for the storms to clear, we explored Resolute Bay and its surrounding country on Cornwallis Island.
		This picture was not captured on Cornwallis Island, rather on Ellesmere Island.
	www.earth.rochester.edu /pmag/arctic/arctic2000/Arctic2000-5.html (484 words)

	SPACE.com -- Mobile Mars Lab Simulated in the Arctic
		The doors of the 8,800-lb (4 metric ton) vehicle were taken off for the 23-mile (37-kilometers) sea ice crossing between Cornwallis Island and Devon Island, High Arctic, to facilitate crewmember evacuation in the event of an emergency.
		The arrival of the rover on Devon Island represents an important milestone in the research effort underway at the HMP, said Pascal Lee, Project Lead for the NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) and Chairman of the Mars Institute.
		To get to Devon Island, MARS-1 was maneuvered in shifts by operators that had received formal training in driving and maintaining military Humvees at the AM General plant prior to this Arctic trek.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/mars_humvee_030528.html (863 words)

	Friends of McNab's Island Society
		Unfortunately the island did not ensure complete protection, for on December 27, 1749, several men were charged with unlawfully killing cattle on Cornwallis Island.
		Trees cut on the island could easily be floated to the shores of Halifax where they might supply timber for the many buildings under construction or provide warmth during the long winters.
		Mauger was granted the beach on Cornwallis Island, so named for him, in 1752 and used it for curing fish, and had buildings erected there for that purpose.
	www.chebucto.ns.ca /environment/FOMIS/history/hist-s2.html (2727 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		He said that he had erected a dwelling house on the island and a curing house for biche de mer, a kind of edible sea slug that is prized in the Orient.
		Insular Government, of Philippine Islands, 212 U.S., was decided on a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands.
		[331 U.S. lulu in the Sandwich Islands, and the Island of Palmyra in the South Sea Islands and wheresoever the same may be situated and whether in the said Colony of New Zealand or elsewhere.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=331&invol=256 (6983 words)

	Friends of McNab's Island Society - Home
		McNabs Island is about 5 km long and up to 1.5 km wide, its 400 ha (1000 acres) present a combination of historical, natural resources and outstanding recreational and educational opportunities.
		From about 1870 through 1930 the island was a popular recreational destination for the people of Halifax as thousands visited the two pleasure grounds' for picnics, dinner, dancing, sports, and later, amusement rides.
		In the 1970s a regional parks plan for metro emphasized the islands, and in 1983 the province assumed responsibility for assembling the park.
	www.chebucto.ns.ca /environment/FOMIS/QuickFacts.htm (403 words)

	ALIAS
		On the south coast of Cornwallis Island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Resolute is the stepping stone and base camp headquarters for many North Pole expeditions.
		Cornwallis Island was one of the last known places circled by Franklin before his expedition sailed southward and disappeared forever.
		Resolute is located on the northeast shore of Resolute Bay on the south coast of Cornwallis Island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands group.
	siempre.arcus.org /4DACTION/wi_alias_fsDrawPage/1/40 (1360 words)

	Queen Elizabeth Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many of the islands are among the largest in the world, the largest being Ellesmere Island.
		The islands, together 418 961 km² (161,762 square miles) in area, were named as a group after Elizabeth II on her coronation as Queen of Canada in 1953.
		First sighted by Europeans in 1616, the Queen Elizabeth Islands were not fully explored and charted until the British North West Passage expeditions and later Norwegian exploration of the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Islands (236 words)

	CNN.com - Sad end for wild goose chase - August 26, 2002
		He was found by researchers who tracked the signal from a transmitter on Kerry's back to the Eskimo's home on remote Cornwallis Island.
		Bleeps from Arnthor stopped abruptly over Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland, where hunting is illegal in spring but known to take place.
		Austin is on the western tip of Ellesmere Island, Hugh was last heard of on Amund Ringnes Island and a bird called Major Ruttledge is believed to be on Graham Island.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/08/26/goose/index.html (608 words)

	Caribou and muskoxen riddle
		In October 1995, for example, there were reports that 100 or more Peary caribou suddenly bolted from Bathurst Island across the sea ice towards the tiny Inuit community of Resolute on Cornwallis Island, only to be greeted by the guns of hunters.
		It was an especially unlikely one given the desert-like conditions on Cornwallis -- the island is little more than a sparsely vegetated gravel pit.
		Miller so much doubted she could still be alive that when he flew north in the summer of 1995, he made a special trip to the island to find out.
	www.yukonalaska.com /history/bl-muskox.html (1123 words)

	Getting to the Haughton impact structure
		Devon Island and Cornwallis Island are separated by a stretch of Arctic Ocean called the Wellington Sound.
		Flying over Cornwallis Island, you'll notice that summer is slow to come to these northern regions.
		Devon Island and Cornwallis Island are separated by a stretch of Arctic Ocean called the Wellington Sound, which is frozen over in this picture.
	www.psi.edu /explorecraters/haughton1.htm (220 words)

	Satellite finds Kerry the goose in Eskimo freezer - theage.com.au
		Oscar's body was found on the island of Hjorsey in Iceland last month and Arnthor's transmitter went dead on Disko Island in Greenland.
		Senior research officer Dr James Robinson said Canadian colleagues on Cornwallis Island had a small receiver that could pick up the birds' signals.
		We thought Kerry had flown from Bathurst Island to Cornwallis Island, but in fact he was being carried in the hunter's boat.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/25/1030053009916.html (274 words)

	ExpeditionTrips.com: Trip Details Page
		You move on to Kane Basin, with plans to land on the Greenland coast and view wildlife, explore the icecap and perhaps hike to a glacier.
		You arrive at Coburg Island in the entrance to Jones Sound, where you take a Zodiac trip along the spectacular seabird cliffs of this wildlife reserve.
		Your final landing point is Beechey Island, where Franklin and his men spent the winter of 1846-47 before they vanished altogether.
	www.expeditiontrips.com /search/trip.asp?tripid=944 (682 words)

	ABSTRACT: Streamflow and suspended sediment transfer to Lake Sophia, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		To ascertain the climatic controls on sediment transport to Lake Sophia, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada, we made detailed hydrological and meteorological measurements in the Sophia River watershed through the 1994 melt season.
		Streamflow and suspended sediment transport are limited, on an annual time scale, by the supply of snow and sediment in the watershed.
		Additional years of data are needed however to define the interannual variability of streamflow and sediment transport in response to climate.
	cgrg.geog.uvic.ca /abstracts/BraunStreamflowTo.html (236 words)

	Nunavut travel guide - Wikitravel
		Nunavut[1] is an extensive territory in the far North of Canada, located east of the Northwest Territories (of which it used to be part), north of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, and west of the Danish territory of Greenland.
		Ellef Ringnes Island - the land currently nearest the geomagnetic north pole, which previously passed through the island.
		The immense territory includes most of Canada's Arctic Islands, from Baffin Island in the territory's southeast, where the capital Iqaluit is located, to Ellesmere Island a few hundred kilometers from the North Pole.
	wikitravel.org /en/Nunavut (457 words)

	Muktuk Kennels, Sled Dog Tours, Arctic Expedition, Tasmania Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		They are travelling along the western coast of Somerset Island, which is situated just north of the Boothia Peninsula – that peninsula is the northernmost part of mainland Nunavut – beyond that, there is nothing but islands and Arctic Ocean.
		Cornwallis Island is northwest of Baffin Island, and west of Devon Island.
		The only community on Cornwallis Island, Resolute is one of the most northerly communities in Canada.
	www.muktuk.com /arctic_greenland2001/arctic_to_resolute.htm (452 words)

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