Charles, Lord Cornwallis. Despite numerical superiority, the Patriot forces suffered a humiliating rout, one of the worse defeats in American military history. After capturing Charleston in May ...

Hugh Dussek talked about Lord Cornwallis and his role in the Revolutionary War, focusing on the 1780 Battle of Charlotte. Mr. Dussek was int… read more Hugh Dussek talked about Lord Cornwallis ...

Charles Cornwallis (December 31, 1738 - October 5, 1805) was a British Army general and official who became the first Governor-General appointed under the Government of India Act. Why is he called ...

In honor of both, let's take a look at Trumbull's 1820 painting, "Surrender of Lord Cornwallis," which celebrated the end of the Revolutionary War. 1. John Trumbull's artistic achievements are ...

that of trapping and defeating British General Lord Cornwallis at a small Virginia port town named Yorktown. Cornwallis had been ordered to take a post with his army and await the arrival of a ...

Fewer still know it is a cenotaph, an empty tomb, erected in memory of Lord Cornwallis, the third governor general of British India, who died on October 5, 1805. Inside the decaying stones it ...

On this day, on the eve of departing for Madras (now Chennai) to start a campaign against the ruler of Mysore Tipu Sultan, Governor-General Lord Cornwallis wrote a letter to his son Charles. I enclose ...