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Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, GCB (10 February 1744 – 5 July 1819) was a Royal Navy officer. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British commander at the siege of Yorktown.
Sir William Cornwallis (c. 1576 – 1 July 1614) was an early English essayist and served as a courtier and member of Parliament. His essays, influenced by the style of Montaigne , rather than that of Francis Bacon , became a model for later English essayists.
La Flota del Canal aparece en varias novelas históricas sobre la Royal Navy. Destacable es Hornblower and the Hotspur de Cecil Scott Forester en la que un héroe de ficción, Horatio Hornblower, se convierte en el favorito del comandante de la Flota del Canal, almirante William Cornwallis.
Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris (baptised 2 April 1807 – died 9 October 1848) was an English military engineer, artist and hunter. [1] Life and career. Early life. The son of James Harris of Wittersham, Kent, he entered Addiscombe Military Seminary at the age of fourteen.
2019 marks the bicentenary of the death of Admiral William Cornwallis. As a major figure in the Royal Navy’s actions in the Napoleonic wars and instrumental in the execution of campaigns such as the Blockade of Brest, it is perhaps surprising that Cornwallis did not gain the lasting fame of his contemporaries such as Nelson.
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, GCB (10 February 1744 – 5 July 1819) was a Royal Navy officer. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British commander at the siege of Yorktown.
27 de oct. de 2009 · Charles Cornwallis was a British army officer who served as a general during the Revolutionary War (also known as the American Revolution). He led British forces to success in New York and...
