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16 de mai. de 2024 · Irish Rebellion, (1798), an uprising that owed its origins to the Society of United Irishmen, which was inspired by the American and French revolutions and established in 1791, first in Belfast and then in Dublin. The membership of both societies was middle-class, but Presbyterians predominated in.
Há 6 dias · 2 Charles Cornwallis, $1^{st}$ Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC, designed between 1753 and 1762 as Viscount Brome and known between 1762 and 1792 as the Earl Cornwallis, was a general and official of the British Army.
23 de mai. de 2024 · Note:When the Marquess of Cornwallis died in 1805 Sir George Barlow was appointed interim governor, and his love of wealth and demolition made him known as the sole emperor who reduced the territorial territory of Britain; but his nomination was rejected by the local government, and appointed by Lord Minto.
14 de mai. de 2024 · Hint: Charles Cornwallis reformed and implemented the Civil service system in India. Cornwallis introduced two divisions of the Indian Civil service namely, covenanted and uncovenanted. The covenanted civil service consisted of only Europeans that comprised the British personnel occupying the higher posts in the government.
Há 5 dias · Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis had left 1,400 British troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Mawhood in Princeton, New Jersey. Following a surprise victory at the Battle of Trenton early in the morning of December 26, 1776, General George Washington of the Continental Army and his council of war expected a strong British counter-attack.
28 de mai. de 2024 · Field-Marshal George Wade, 1725–48; John Smith Bourke, afterwards De Burgh, eleventh Earl of Clanricarde, 1770–7; Robert Monckton Arundell, fourth Viscount Galway, 1777–8; Sir Charles Asgill, second baronet, Colonel of 11th Regiment of Foot (see Burke's Extinct Baronetcies, 1844, for his capture at Yorktown when serving under the Marquess Cornwallis), 1778–85; Sir John Call, military ...
