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	Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the eldest son of Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis (later 1st Earl Cornwallis) and was born in London even though his family's estates were in Kent.
		Cornwallis, a close political ally of the younger Pitt then moved to India, where the colonial administration was judged by the Prime Minister to be urgently in need of reform following Warren Hastings' tenure.
		The primary objective of his first term was the settling of issues related to revenue extraction and local administration, and his administration came to the significant agreement with native landlords known as the Permanent Settlement of Bengal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Cornwallis (603 words)

	CHARLES, EARL CORNWALLIS by Janie B. Cheaney
		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 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.
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	MSN Encarta - Charles Cornwallis
		Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis (1738-1805), British general and statesman, whose defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, was decisive in ending the American Revolution.
		Cornwallis was born in London on December 31, 1738, and educated at Eton College and the University of Cambridge.
		Cornwallis was responsible for the British victory at Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania, in September 1777, and later in the same month he occupied Philadelphia.
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	Story - Honorable Edward Cornwallis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cornwallis was described at this time as of slender build, somewhat over middle height, an aristocrat to his finger tips, conscious of his dignity, inclined to be cool and ceremonious, except when his "great temper" took charge of him, possessing a pleasant voice, fine eyes, and a winning expression.
		Cornwallis' past services and the influence of powerful friends, however, brought about the exoneration of the three colonels, though for many months their conduct was the subject of caricature and ridicule.
		Cornwallis could not have had much part in lodge affairs, for as already stated he was seconded from active service within a few months and was succeeded by Major James Wolfe, who tradition tells us had previously been made a Mason in the Lodge of the 20th.
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	QBallLe's Home Page 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charles Cornwallis was the eldest son of the first Eral Cornwallis, and succeeded his father to become the second Earl Cornwallis in 1762.
		Cornwallis was educated and commissioined in the army at Eton.
		Cornwallis subdued Ireland and attempted to unify the Irish and British Parliaments, but his attempts were cut short when George III refused to permit catholic emancipation.
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	Sir Henry Clinton's Observations on Earl Cornwallis's Answer [1/2]
		Although Lord Cornwallis, in his letter to the American minister of the 23d April, and in his introduction, intimates that the substance of those dispatches was sent to him on the 22d April; I should, notwithstanding, suppose, that what was sent to his Lordship as such must have been improperly stated.
		Lord Cornwallis not being sufficiently recovered from a severe fever which lately attacked him to be able to write to you, his Lordship has desired that I should have the honour of communicating with you upon the subject of the present service.
		Lord Cornwallis begs that you will inform the Commander in Chief of our circumstances, and that you will have the goodness to mention how highly sensible his Lordship is to the very effectual manner in which his Excellency has endeavoured to ease the operations of his army.
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	CHARLESCORNWALIS
		Cornwallis, Charles [1st Marquis and 2nd Earl Cornwallis] (1738-1805) British General: Cornwallis fought with distinction in the Seven Year' War.
		Cornwallis was never able to adapt to fighting against the guerilla techniques which the Continental Army troops learned from Native Americans.
		Cornwallis was the only senior British general who was not blamed for the loss of the American colonies.
	www.multied.com /Bio/RevoltBIOS/CornwalisCharles.html (146 words)

	ipedia.com: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Cornwallis (December 31, 1738-October 5, 1805) was a British general and colonial governor.
		He was the eldest son of Charles, the 1st Earl Cornwallis and was born in London, England, even though his family's estates were in Kent.
		Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans at the Battle of Yorktown, on October 19, 1781, thus ending the war.
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	BBC - h2g2 - General Lord Charles Cornwallis - A595208
		General Lord Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess, Governor-General of India, Viceroy of Ireland, was born on New Year's Eve 1737, the sixth child and first son to Charles, the fifth Baron of Eye and the first Earl and Viscount Brome and Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Townsend.
		Cornwallis was give to task of mopping up the Southern States; serious resistance was not expected.
		As Cornwallis pursued the Army, discarding his supply wagons and anything else that was slowing his troops down, they got within a mile of Greene and his men, but destiny was against him.
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	Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He was the eldest son of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl CornwallisCharles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis (later 1st Earl Cornwallis) and was born in London even though his family's estates were in Kent/.
		After a textbook siege by American and French forces, Cornwallis surrendered to the allied forces, bringing to a close the Battle of Yorktown (1781)Battle of Yorktown, on October 19, 1781/, and thus ending the war.
		Cornwallis then moved to India where he was appointed Governor General in 1786.
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	Charles Cornwallis
		Cornwallis adopted it on the spur of the moment, on his own responsibility, and without waiting for his superior officer, Sir Henry Clinton, to sanction it; and in after-years it became the occasion of a bitter controversy between the two generals.
		Cornwallis pursued Lafayette unsuccessfully from Richmond to the Rapidan, then, after some fruitless raids upon Charlottesville and Albemarle Court-House, he returned to Richmond, and presently began his retreat from the peninsula, closely followed by Lafayette, who had been re-enforced by Steuben and Wayne, until he was now superior m numbers.
		Washington was not slow to avail himself of this rare opportunity, and by one of the most brilliant movements recorded in the history of warfare suddenly moved his army from the Hudson River to the James and invested Yorktown with an overwhelming force.
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		Earl of Dufferin (Marquess of Dufferin and Ava)
		By a supplementary the Bill passed in 1786, Lord Cornwallis was appointed as the first Governor-General, and he then became the effective ruler of British India under the authority of the Board of Control and the Court of Directors.
		Cornwallis provoked Tipu by signing an agreement with the Nizams for help to recover the district of Balaghat which was in the possession of Mysore.
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	Bio Notes: Lord Cornwallis
		[Cornwallis] never quite understood that to quell revolutionaries...he had to be as ruthless as they; that he had to use terror, oppression, confiscation, and brutality on a grand scale; that to eliminate the revolution he had to eliminate revolutionaries, not just beat their armies in the field.
		Cornwallis was a well-trained European general, which rendered him ill-equipped to manage the fluid, partisan war which took place in the south.
		Cornwallis absolved Tarleton of blame and refused his request for a courtmartial to clear his name -- saying such a thing was entirely unnecessary -- but he never again trusted Tarleton with a fully independent command.
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	The Surrender of General Cornwallis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Earl Cornwallis, who had marched with his army to Portsmouth, was at length instructed by an express from Sir Henry Clinton to secure Old Point Comfort or Hampton Road as a station for line-of-battle ships, and was allowed to detain any part or the whole of the forces under his command for completing that service.
		The general proposition stated by Lord Cornwallis for the basis of the proposed negotiation being such as to lead to the opinion that the terms of capitulation might without much difficulty be adjusted, the suspension of hostilities was prolonged through the night.
		Lord Cornwallis, submitting to a necessity absolutely inevitable, surrendered the posts of Yorktown and Gloucester Point with the garrison, and the shipping in the harbor with the seamen, to the land and naval officers of America and France.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_II/surrender_hi.html (2137 words)

	The Battle of Guilford Court House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Earl Cornwallis was one of the most zealous generals sent out by George the Third.
		It became expedient for Cornwallis to lengthen his line of battle: accordingly, Norton, with the First Battalion of the Guards, moved to the extreme right to aid the Hessians and the Highlanders, while the light infantry of the Guards and the Yagers supported Cornwallis' Regiment, the Thirty-third, on the left.
		Cornwallis replied: "It is a necessary evil which we must endure to avert impending destruction." The grape-shot from the smoking artillery of McLeod strewed the open ground with more bodies of the Guards, though it checked Howard and Washington, and saved the King's army.
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	Reader's Companion to Military History - - Cornwallis, Charles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cornwallis felt that he should conquer North Carolina, but he was delayed by sick troops, the enervating summer heat, and partisan attacks on his supply lines.
		On March 15, 1781, Cornwallis defeated Nathanael Greene at Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina with about two thousand men, but this was no rout, and over one-quarter of the earl's force were casualties.
		Cornwallis marched to the Chesapeake to seek a decisive battle in Virginia and to cover the Carolinas.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/ml_012500_cornwallisch.htm (576 words)

	NPS Source Book: Yorktown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cornwallis moved his whole army to Yorktown, on the York River, in August and began leisurely fortifying that position and Gloucester Point opposite.
		In the mean time Earl Cornwallis practised various means to send intelligence to New York of the situation and force of the French fleet.
		Before this period accounts were brought to Earl Cornwallis that General Washington, with a large body of continentals, and Count Rochambeau, with the French army, were preparing to form a junction with LaFayette, by descending in transports from the head of Elk river in Maryland, under the convoy of the French ships.
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	Digital History
		Convinced that he could not suppress the rebellion in the Carolinas, Lord Cornwallis retreated to Virginia in 1781.
		A force of 7800 French peasants, 5700 Continental soldiers, and 3200 militia kept Cornwallis from retreating on land.
		Cornwallis held out for three weeks and then surrendered in October, while a British band played a tune called "The World Turned Upside Down." One quarter of the entire British army in America surrendered at Yorktown.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=288 (393 words)

	General Charles Cornwallis
		Cornwallis was the eldest son of the 1st Earl Cornwallis.
		On succeeding to his father's title as 2d Earl in 1762, Cornwallis became active politically with the Whigs and took his seat in the House of Lords where his abilities and connections led to appointments as Aide-de-Camp to the King, Chief Circuit Court Justice south of the Trent River, and Joint Vice-Treasurer of Ireland.
		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)

	Charles Cornwallis
		Charles Cornwallis was born in London and educated at Eton and Cambridge.
		In 1760, Cornwallis was elected to the House of Commons; two years later he inherited his father’s earldom and entered the House of Lords as Earl Cornwallis.
		Cornwallis was impatient with Howe’s lack of initiative and was later similarly critical of Sir Henry Clinton.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1304.html (543 words)

	YORKTOWN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Charles Cornwallis was born in London on December 31, 1738.
		Cornwallis didn't like the policies that led to the American Revolution, but he did accept a command as a Major General during the Revolution.
		Cornwallis fought in the battle of Yorktown, Virginia in 1781.
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	The Council of American Revolutionary Sites (CARS)
		Cornwallis crossed the Hudson with approximately 4,000 soldiers on the night of 19-20 November 1776.
		In 1909 the Palisades Interstate Park was dedicated and the house formally named "The Old Cornwallis Headquarters." In 1933 the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs prevailed upon the Park Commission to open "Cornwallis Headquarters" to the public as a historic house museum.
		Cornwallis held the upper hand; the Americans were in disorderly retreat; and the Revolutionary cause was deeply demoralized.
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	Charles Wisner Barrell - Earlist Authenticated "Shakespeare" Tanscript
		Halliwell-Phillips continues his 1852 commentary with a genealogical chart, showing that Anne Cornwallis (whom he identifies as a daughter of William Cornwallis and a granddaughter of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Comptroller of the Royal Household under Mary Tudor) was a cousin of Edward de Vere through her maternal grandfather, Lord Latimer.
		Over and above this identification of the daughter of William Cornwallis as the original transcriber of the verses, Halliwell-Phillips is unquestionably right in dating their collection to a period within the 1580's, with the outside limit for their gathering, placed at 1595.
		After William (later Sir William) Cornwallis took the place over in 1588, he is known to have provided a situation in his household as "reader" for Thomas Watson, one of Oxford's literary protégés.
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	Charles Cornwallis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His defeat at the hands of General George Washington, at Yorktown was the deciding battle in the Revolutionary War.Charles Cornwallis attended Eton and Cambridge before entering the army.
		Cornwallis was elected to the House of Commansin 1760 and entered the House of Lords in 1762 in parliament he was known as friend of the American colonist.In October 1781 his army encamped at Yorktown was trapped by combined American and French forces by forced to surrender.Lord Cornwallis was son to Charles first Earl Cornwallis.
		In 1786 he was appointed govener general of India were he proved to be an able administrator and milatry leader.He was a viceroy of Ireland 1798-1801 in 1802 he helped negative the treaty of Amiens which temporary stopped Britans war with Napoleon the first.
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		Charles, Earl Cornwallis, commanded the tough professional force of 1,900 British soldiers.
		Cornwallis lost a quarter of his army and almost a third of his officers.
		With greatly diminished ranks and depleted supplies, Cornwallis withdrew to the coast, 200 miles away.
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	The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History: Charles, 1st Marquis and 2nd Earl Cornwallis@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis and 2nd Earl (1738–1805)
		He succeeded to the earldom in 1762, and was made a marquis in 1792.
		Cornwallis was educated at Eton and Clare College, Cambridge.
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		Cornwallis, Charles E. (second Earl of Cornwallis) ALS dated March 2nd 1797 written as Governor General of India about the return of...
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		HISTORICAL RECORD: Charles, second Earl Cornwallis, was born on New Year's Eve 1738, the eldest child of a titled and highly respectable family in Suffolk, England.
		However the Earl proved his worth and retrieved his reputation at the battles of Brandywine in the fall of 1777, and Monmouth in the summer of 1778.
		Cornwallis worked out a plan to deal with this unorthodox tactic: Colonel Tarleton, with his own cavalry plus two regiments of light infantry, would pursue Morgan eastward and either destroy the Americans or run them into the main British command under Cornwallis.
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