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Gouverneur-generaal van Brits-Indië. Charles Cornwallis, eerste Markies Cornwallis ( Londen, 31 december 1738 – Ghazipur, 5 oktober 1805) was een Britse militair en koloniaal gouverneur. Hij is bekend als Brits generaal in de Amerikaanse Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog. Het beleg van Yorktown in 1781, waarbij hij verslagen werd door een Amerikaans ...
Lord Cornwallis. Lord Cornwallis (1738-1805) was a British politician and military commander, best known for his surrender to the Americans at Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Born Charles Cornwallis in Mayfair, London, he was eldest son of the 5th Baron Cornwallis and was educated at Eton and Cambridge.
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Charles Cornwallis, 1. marki Cornwallis, (født 31. desember 1738 på Grosvenor Square i London, død 5. oktober 1805 i Ghazipur i Uttar Pradesh i India) var en britisk kommandant og koloniguvernør. I USA huskes han mest som general i den amerikanske uavhengighetskrigen. Hans nederlag i 1781 for en samlet amerikansk– fransk styrke i ...
Charles Cornwallis succeeded his father as 2nd Earl Cornwallis in 1762. He became 1st Marquess Cornwallis in 1792. During the American War of Independence (1775-1783) he served as a senior officer in the British Army, ultimately becoming second-in-command to Sir Henry Clinton; he led British forces to their defeat at Yorktown in October 1781.
12 de set. de 2017 · On 12 September 1786, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis took charge as the Governor-General of Fort William (Bengal) and as the Commander-in-Chief of British India. This edition of This Day in History gives a brief introduction about Lord Cornwallis, the major reforms introduced by him and will highlight the Third Anglo Mysore War that took place in his tenure.
The man at the heart of this British defeat was General Charles Cornwallis, who surrendered his 8,000 British troops to the joint American and French army led by General George Washington. Cornwallis’s surrender resulted in the Treaty of Paris, which recognised the independence of the United States.
