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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YORKTOWN, Va., Oct. 19. -- On the historic ground where Lord Cornwallis surrendered 128 years ago to-day patriotic Americans celebrated to-day the anniversary of that surrender which put an end to ...

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 ...

In 1781 amid the siege of Yorktown, British Gen. Charles, Lord Cornwallis scuttled a portion of his fleet — naval and commercial — along the shore of the York River as he defended Yorktown ...

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 ...