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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.
Cornwallis may also refer to:
Some two to four vessels with the name Cornwallis, for Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, have an association with British East India Company (EIC). There exist records for two voyages, but there is some question as to which of three merchant vessels made which voyage.
- Cornwallis, a snow of 170 tons ( bm), was launched at Bombay Dockyard in 1787 to serve the Bengal Pilot Service. A French privateer captured her in 1796.
- Cornwallis, of 719 tons (bm), was built in 1788 at Surat for Lennox & Co. under the name Britannia. However she was renamed to Cornwallis before her completion. She may have served the EIC between 1797 and 1803 under the command of Captain Robert Robertson. Lloyd's Review shows this Cornwallis trading between India and London, and under Robertson's command, between 1800 and 1802. In 1802 command changed to R. Elderton. He sailed her between London and India until 1809.
- Cornwallis, of 653 tons (bm) was a merchant ship built of teak in Damam, India, in 1790.
- Cornwallis, of 717 tons (bm), 129'9" in length and 36'4" in beam, was launched on 30 December 1812 by James Scott & John Hunter, Fort Gloucester, Calcutta, for Forbes & Co.
One of these vessels was still trading cotton to China as late as 1827.
The two EIC voyages were:
EIC voyage #1 (1810)Cornwallis sailed from Bombay on 17 June 1810. She reached St Helena on 3 September and arrived at Long Reach on 16 November.
EIC voyage #2 (1817-18)Captain Thomas Brown sailed from Calcutta on 25 March 1817. Cornwallis was at Diamond Harbour on 10 May, Madras on 10 July, and the Cape on 27 October. She arrived at Spithead on 17 January 1818.
See also:- Earl Cornwallis
- Marquis Cornwallis
Usage examples of "cornwallis".
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.