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  1. www.battlefields.org › learn › videosCornwallis: A Great British General | American Battlefield Trust

    Who was Charles Cornwallis, Britain’s commander of the Southern Armies in the Revolutionary War? A respected and long serving general, his doomed attempts to win hearts and minds in the Southern colonies led directly to the British defeat at Yorktown.

  2. www.thirteen.org › wnet › historyofusFreedom: A History of US. Biography. Lord Cornwallis | PBS

    During the American Revolution, Lord Charles Cornwallis commanded British troops in the southern states. This is especially interesting and ironic because in England, he had voted against policies ...

  3. www.nps.gov › york › learnLieutenant General Charles Cornwaliis - Yorktown Battlefield ...

    26 de feb. de 2015 · Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis. 1738-1805. Charles Cornwallis was born into old English aristocracy. Educated at Eton, he joined the British army at the age of 18 as an ensign in the Grenadier Guards. Cornwallis differed from many aristocratic officers in the fact that he actually studied military science.

  4. www.universalis.fr › encyclopedie › charles-cornwallisCORNWALLIS CHARLES (1738-1805) - Encyclopædia Universalis

    CHARLES. (1738-1805) Général britannique, né le 31 décembre 1738 à Londres, mort le 5 octobre 1805 à Ghazipur, en Inde (dans l'actuel Uttar Pradesh). Vétéran de la guerre de Sept Ans (1756-1763), Cornwallis, qui désapprouve l'intransigeance de Londres à l'égard des colons nord-américains, doit toutefois combattre sur place la ...

  5. historiauniversal.org › batalla-de-yorktownBatalla de Yorktown

    La Batalla de Yorktown fue un suceso clave en la Guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, que tuvo lugar en 1781 en la localidad de Yorktown, Virginia. Esta batalla marcó un punto de inflexión en el conflicto, ya que supuso la rendición del ejército británico bajo el mando del general Charles Cornwallis y la consolidación de la ...

  6. www.worldhistory.org › article › 2428Battle of Camden - World History Encyclopedia

    16 de abr. de 2024 · Subscribe to topic Subscribe to author. The Battle of Camden (16 August 1780) was a major battle of the southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). It saw a British army under Lord Charles Cornwallis decisively defeat an American force under General Horatio Gates, thereby securing British control of South Carolina and ...

  7. da.wikipedia.org › wiki › Charles_CornwallisCharles Cornwallis - Wikipedia, den frie encyklopædi

    Charles Cornwallis, 1. marquess Cornwallis (født 31. december 1738, død 5. oktober 1805) var en engelsk kommandant og koloniguvernør. I USA huskes han mest som britisk general i den amerikanske uafhængighedskrig.