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Commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Cornwallis may also refer to:
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General Cornwallis wanted Colonel Donop to retire, but the colonel stayed where he was and intrenched himself.
He returned to New York, leaving Cornwallis, and afterwards Grant, in command in New Jersey.
Against this small force Cornwallis advanced with a larger number of British and Hessian veterans.
Lord Cornwallis determined to surprise Boundbrook, in New Jersey, which was held by one thousand Americans under Colonel Butler.
Lord Cornwallis took only one hundred and fifty prisoners and two cannon, instead of a thousand men.
Howe and Cornwallis, made a long circuit to the left, and met with little opposition until it had reached and safely passed the forks of the Brandywine, where a small force could perhaps have stopped it.
Two days after the battle of the Brandywine, Cornwallis entered that town, thus securing a new base of supplies for the army.
On the morning of the 26th of September, 1777, Lord Cornwallis entered Philadelphia at the head of two English and two Hessian battalions of grenadiers, and proceeded to fortify the town.
Lord Cornwallis, hearing the firing at Philadelphia, immediately ordered three battalions of grenadiers to start.
Clinton and Cornwallis, acting under the instructions of Lord George Germaine, abandoned this conciliatory policy.
I do not find any record of an active part taken by these regiments in the campaigns which Lord Cornwallis conducted in South and North Carolina.
Tarleton was to attack Morgan in front, while Cornwallis was to follow up the left bank of Broad River and capture the fugitive Americans.
The cannon had already been captured by Gates at Saratoga and by Cornwallis at Camden.
The whole English line was now engaged, and the Virginians defended themselves so well that Lord Cornwallis was obliged to call up his reserves.
Soon after his arrival General Phillips sallied out from Portsmouth, went up the James River burning and plundering on both banks, carried off the negroes and shipped them to the West Indies, destroyed the magazines at Manchester, under the nose of Lafayette, who remained on the north side of the river, and on the 9th of May took possession of Petersburg, where his army was to make a junction with that of Lord Cornwallis, advancing from Wilmington.