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	history of American Revolution by Mercy Warren, volume 2, chapter 20
		Lord Cornwallis, notwithstanding all the discouraging circumstances which he had encountered and which at times still seemed to increase before him, did not lose sight of the objects of conquest, victory, and glory, to be acquired in Virginia.
		He informed Lord Cornwallis that General Washington had with him 8000 or 10,000 men, besides the French battalions; and observed that everyone acquainted with the disposition of the inhabitants east of the Hudson must be sensible in what manner their appearance would affect the numerous and warlike militia of the New England states.
		Lord Cornwallis, with very different ideas, was parrying the attacks of the Americans then in Virginia, and preparing, as far as possible, for the resistance of stronger bodies of enemies.
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	Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (December 31, 1738-October 5, 1805) was a British general and colonial governor.
		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.
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	Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (December 31, 1738 – October 5, 1805) was a British general and colonial governor.
		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.
		A few years after his term ended in 1793 he once again re-located, and became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland where he was responsible for the repression of the United Irishmen's rebellion in 1798 and the enabling of the union between Britain and Ireland.
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	The Surrender of General Cornwallis
		Lord Cornwallis reached Petersburg, without much opposition, on the 20th of May, and forming a junction with Major-General Phillips, was now at the head of a very powerful army.
		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.
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	The Hessians - Chapter Twenty-three
		Cornwallis was disappointed but not daunted by the rout of his ablest subordinate, and of nearly a third of his soldiers.
		Cornwallis called on the Tories to rise, and these at first showed an inclination to do so, but a party of them was attacked and dispersed by a superior force under Henry Lee and Pickens, and the others became discouraged and went home again.
		Cornwallis was so crippled by his victory that he turned away from the Virginian border and marched down to Wilmington to rest his army, leaving his severely wounded behind him.
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	cornwallis - redcoats - british military
		Cornwallis, after meeting strong resistance in the Carolinas, realized that a way to lessen that resistance was to knock Virginia out of the war.
		His Cornwallis Code of legal and administrative reform served the country well for many years, and for this he was elevated to Marquess Cornwallis in 1792, and in 1793 was promoted to General.
		Cornwallis was appointed Viceroy of Ireland and Commander-in-Chief (1798-1801), where he succeeded in subduing the rebellion led by Wolfe Tone, and crushing the French invasion force.
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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805, in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh) was a British military commander and colonial governor.
		Cornwallis was only made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in June 1798, just before the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 between republican United Irishmen and the British Government.
		James Cornwallis, the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, succeeded as 4th Earl Cornwallis.
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	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.
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	webindia123.com-Indian History-Modern-British Governors and Governor Generals-Cornwallis
		In 1790 Cornwallis got the approval of the Board of Directors who recognised the Zamindars as the owners of land.They were subjected to annual payment of land revenue.
		Lord Wellesley is considered to be one of the most brilliant Governor General of Bengal.
		Lord Minto intervened in the affairs of Berar in 1809 when it was attacked by Amir Khan.
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	Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis Summary
		As Cornwallis waited for resupply from the Royal Navy, the American commander George Washington learned that a French naval force was moving to enter the war for the first time, and he realised that Cornwallis' exposed position was an opportunity to win a victory that would resonate in the public imagination.
		On 19 October 1781, an emissary of Cornwallis surrendered the army to Washington; Cornwallis himself declined to attend the ceremony, claiming illness.
		Cornwallis, a close political ally of the younger Pitt, then was sent to India, where the colonial administration was judged by the Prime Minister to be urgently in need of reform following Warren Hastings' tenure.
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	ipedia.com: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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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	history of American Revolution by Mercy Warren, volume 2, chapter 19
		Lord Cornwallis's army was much superior in number and discipline, his troops were well clothed nd regularly paid, and when General Greene first arrived, they were flushed by recent successes, particularly the defeat of General Gates.
		Tarleton's defeat was a blow entirely unexpected to Lord Cornwallis, and induced him to march himself from Wynnesborough to the Yadkin, in pursuit of General Morgan, with the hope of overtaking him and recovering the prisoners.
		Lord Cornwallis, having decamped from the neighborhood of his late military operations, marched with all possible expedition toward the more eastern parts of North Carolina.
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	American Revolution: Lord Charles Cornwallis
		Lord Charles Cornwallis was a British general who fought against the Americans in many different battles during the Revolutionary War.
		Cornwallis was a successful general, but he was unable to defeat the American and French forces, leading to the biggest loss of his career.
		Cornwallis came to America with the rank of major general, but by 1780, he was responsible for the entire British campaign in the South.
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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 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.
		Lord Cornwallis's career as a soldier and officer of the Crown was long and distinguished.
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	British Lord to Discuss Cornwallis Family History in Lee Chapel
		Lord Cornwallis is a descendent of General Charles Cornwallis, whose surrender to General George Washington at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781 marked the end of the Revolutionary War.
		Born in Kent in 1921 and educated at Eton, Lord Cornwallis volunteered for military service at the outbreak of the Second World War and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, the oldest serving regular regiment in the British Army.
		Lord Cornwallis is visiting the United States to participate in ceremonies to commemorate the 225th anniversary of the surrender at Yorktown, after which he will visit Lexington for his lecture and for a tour of the University's holdings related to the Society of the Cincinnati, the oldest military hereditary society in the United States.
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	Letter III: Lord Cornwallis – Sir Ralph Abercrombie : Memoirs of William Sampson
		Lord Cornwallis, something wiser than his predecessors, or at least unactuated by party spite, saw how nearly all was lost, and formed a better plan.
		But lord Cornwallis saw it differently, and ordered his disapprobation of the sentence to be read in open court, to lord Enniskellen, the president, and the other officers composing the court martial; disqualifying them forever from setting on any other court martial, and the yeoman from ever serving the king.
		Nor would this story have been ever known either to lord Cornwallis or the public, more than to thousands of others buried with the victims in the grave, had it not been for the accidental protection afforded to this poor widow, by a lady of fortune and fashion – Mrs.
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	American Revolution - Lord Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquis Cornwallis: Lieutenant General of the British Army
		Cornwallis, along with Clinton, played a huge role in nearly destroying Washingtons army in the early battles of Long Island (August 1776.) Cornwallis was a major opponent of Washington throughout the war.
		However, Cornwallis paid Washington back with a tremendous performance at Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania, in September 1777, that led to the fall of Philadelphia.
		Cornwallis had been impressive throughout the first part of the Revolution, but once Clinton was put in charge and Cornwallis sent south, the famous fighting general made some of the most strategic blunders of the Revolution.
	www.americanrevolution.com /LordCharlesCornwallis.htm (332 words)

	General Charles Cornwallis
		British General and colonial governor Charles Cornwallis was born on Dec. 31, 1738, and died on Oct. 5, 1805.
		Cornwallis was the eldest son of the 1st Earl Cornwallis.
		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)

	Lord Cornwallis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Even though Cornwallis was against the acts that would eventually lead to the revolution, he took the job of Major General in the American Revolution in 1775.
		Cornwallis tried to resign that year, but his resignation was declined.
		Cornwallis was a important contributor to the history of Great Britain and its empire.
	www.promotega.org /msc30008/cornwallis.htm (699 words)

	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.
		Cornwallis, his health now failing, chose to retire to his country estate in Brome, Suffolk, England, after a lifelong dedication to his country.
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	ROBERT STEWART, 2ND MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT STEWART, 2ND MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The son, known in history as Lord Castlereagh, was born on the 18th of June in the same year as Napoleon and Wellington.
		In Lord Camden, as afterwards in Lord Cornwallis, Castlereagh found a congenial chief; though his favor with these statesmen was jealously viewed both by the Irish oligarchy and by the English politicians who wished to keep the machine of Irish administration in their own, hands.
		The kings reluctance to yield to the Roman Catholic claims was underestimated by Pitt, while Cornwallis imprudently permitted himself to use language whrch, though not amounting to a pledge, was construed as one.
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	People of the Revolution
		Cornwallis was born in London, the son of the first Earl Cornwallis, and educated at Eton.
		In 1781, Cornwallis seriously depleted his army and supplies while achieving a series of tactical victories in the South and was forced to withdraw to Yorktown, Virginia ignoring Clinton's suggestions to either stay in the Carolinas or join the British troops in New York.
		Lord Cornwallis continues on to a successful military career, becoming the governor of India in 1786 and the governor-general of Ireland in 1797.
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	Lord Cornwallis's Surrender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In that year, Charles Cornwallis (the second-in-command in America and the most aggressive of the British generals) was to invade the Carolinas and Virginia.
		The results were typical of the Revolutionary War: Cornwallis won most of his engagements against the Colonials, but never managed to pin them down and suffered occasional losses at the hands of a rebellious countryside.
		Cornwallis was facing Washington at Yorktown with only a fraction of the British colonial army.
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/SBoA088.html (333 words)

	ARW History-South Part III. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lord Charles CORNWALLIS never regarded a deserter, or any one whom a court-martial sentenced to death, as a subject of mercy.
		Under the immediate eye of Lord Charles CORNWALLIS, the prisoners who had capitulated in Charleston were the subjects of perpetual persecution, unless they would exchange their paroles for oaths of allegiance.
		At half-past two on the morning of the 16th August, 1780, about nine miles from Camden, the advance-guard of Lord Charles CORNWALLIS fell in with the advance-guard of the Americans, to whom the collision was a surprise.
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	Charles Cornwallis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Cornwallis,
		Located in the Arctic Ocean between Cornwallis and Melville island s, it is 160 mi (260 km) long and 50–100 mi (80–160 km) wide.
		He arrived (1775) in America with General Cornwallis and was a member of the patrol that captured Gen. Charles Lee at Basking Ridge, N.J. He served with William Howe at Brandywine, Germantown, and Philadelphia.
		In Lower Bengal, the government of Lord CORNWALLIS fixed the land revenue payable by the...
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	Guilford Courthouse National Military Park - People (U.S. National Park Service)
		While in Parliament, Cornwallis disagreed with many of the harsh acts that he felt were to punish the American colonies.
		Lord Cornwallis was made a marquis by King George III in 1793 and returned to England in 1794.
		An aging and ill Cornwallis was recalled to India in 1805 where at the age of 66, after a lifetime of service to king and country, he died.
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