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Edward Cornwallis (5 March [ O.S. 22 February] 1713 – 14 January 1776) [1] was a British career military officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family, who reached the rank of Lieutenant General. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he was appointed Groom of the Chamber for ...
- 8th Foot
- Lieutenant General
- 1730s–1776
13 de ene. de 2008 · Edward Cornwallis, founder of Halifax in 1749, governor of Nova Scotia from 1749-52, military leader and governor of Gibraltar from 1762-76, (born 22 February 1713 in London, England; died 23 January 1776 in Gibraltar).
Biography – CORNWALLIS, EDWARD – Volume IV (1771-1800) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Source: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. CORNWALLIS, EDWARD, army officer and colonial administrator; founder of Halifax, Nova Scotia; b. 22 Feb. 1712/13 in London, England, sixth son of Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis, and Lady Charlotte ...
16 de feb. de 2018 · Feb 16, 2018. Overhead, an eagle circled as a crane lifted the Cornwallis statue from its granite base. APTN Investigates. Edward Cornwallis is honoured as the founder of Halifax. A British military leader who issued bounties on Mi’kmaw scalps, his statue in a city park named in his honour has been at the centre of division and debate.
governor of Nova Scotia, Edward Corn - wallis. Was Cornwallis a courageous and far-sighted founder of Halifax and builder of colonial Nova Scotia, or was he a genocidal imperialist whose chief claim to notoriety was his placement of a price on the heads of all indigenous inhabitants of Mi’kma’ki? 1 Should Cornwallis continue to be distin-
13 de mar. de 2018 · Edward Cornwallis, Public Memory, and Canadian Nationalism. March 13, 2018 2 Comments. By Tom Fraser. Cornwallis statue covered in a tarp. On January 30 th 2018, Halifax Regional Council voted 12-4 in favour of the immediate removal of the statue of Edward Cornwallis which has stood upon a plinth in the city’s south end since 1931.
Edward Cornwallis ( 5 March [ O.S. 22 February] 1713 – 14 January 1776) was a British career military officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family, who reached the rank of Lieutenant General. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he was appointed Groom of the Chamber for King George II ...
