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5 days ago · Charles, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, eldest son of the 1st Earl Cornwallis, was born in 1738. At the age of 18 he was appointed ensign, and in 1758–9 served as aide-de-camp to Granby in Germany, being present at the battle of Minden.
5 days ago · Greene continued to stay ahead of Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis. Cornwallis knew that his large wagon trains were slowing him down. He decided to burn all items that were not necessary for battle and left stragglers behind so that the army could move faster.
5 days ago · The combined force was on its way to Yorktown and its appointment with destiny with the entrapped British command of General Lord Charles Cornwallis. General George Washington led his Continental Army and the French Army under General Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau into Virginia in mid-September 1781.
3 days ago · Wayne, with a force of 800 men, was unknowingly facing the entire British Army of 5,000 men under Gen. Charles Cornwallis at Green Spring. Wayne tried to confuse the British by sending marksmen forward and by sending runners back 5 miles to the Continental Army to let them know what he was facing.
3 days ago · In 1781 the French Touraine Infantry Regiment was ordered to set sail from what is today Haiti to Virginia, in support of a 23-year-old Marquis de Lafayette, whose American troops had been birddogging British Gen. Charles Cornwallis.
5 days ago · Among the last of the series of men from noble families were Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose policy finally alienated the American colonies, and Charles Marquess Cornwallis, twice Governor-General of India, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland when the Act of Union was passed, who had surrendered with his army at Yorktown in 1781.
5 days ago · Richard Bexwell kept his first court as lord; and on March 28, in the 20th of Elizabeth, Francis Bexwell, Esq. sold it to Charles Cornwallis, Esq. then it came to Thomas Gawsell, &c. as above, and to Sir Ralph Hare, &c. and so it was united to the other lordships.
