cornwallis in English

noun

family name; Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805), British general during the Revolutionary War (surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown in 1781)

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1. On 14 March, London, under pressure to finalise the budget, gave Cornwallis a hard deadline.

2. Barrelling Tide Distillery is located on the Cornwallis River in Port Williams, in the beautiful Annapolis Valley

3. By late August 17 French ships had blockaded Yorktown so that no British reinforcements could reach Cornwallis. Sentencedict.com

4. Barrelling Tide Distillery is located on the Cornwallis River in Port Williams, in the beautiful Annapolis Valley

5. Mr Delaney said he had left his account of the sinking of the Cornwallis and the account of the East India clerk, Godfrey.

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7. I have prevailed upon the Prince Regent to open a Royal Commission into the sinking of an East India Company ship called the Cornwallis on July 10th, 1804.

8. Affra Cornwallis was buried at Bishopsbourne, Kent, England.1,3 She was born circa 1510 at of Brome, Suffolk, England.4 She married Sir Anthony Aucher, Marshal of Calais, Governor of Guisnes, son of James Aucher, Gent

9. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856) "Dried apples became ' one solid Breccial mass of impacted angularities, a conglomerate of sliced chalcedony

10. Charles Cornwallis Chesney claimed, "the South had enjoyed the special advantage, derived from her Aristocratically composed society, of a class of men accustomed to command and lead others," thus providing "officers whom the privates could respect."

11. Lord Cornwallis being Apprized of his ticklish and perilous situ- ation appears to be meditating his Escape through Carolina and the Marquis though much inferior in Numbers, is posting his Army in the most advantageous Manner to prevent him, or if that can't be effected, to check his Progress and harrass his Rear

12. Benjamin Martin (born 1732) was an American politician and soldier who was best-known as the legendary "Ghost" during the American Revolutionary War.During the war, Martin led a colonial militia force in a guerrilla war against the British Army in his home state of South Carolina, tying down Charles Cornwallis' army until the French could arrive to support George Washington's army in the north.