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3 Feb 1781, Gen Nathanael Greene & his troops cross the Yadkin R. to evade Gen Charles Cornwallis. Crossing followed Patriot losses at the Catawba R. & Tarrant's Tavern, as well as from heavy rains & roiling rivers. His army would live to fight again.

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2023-02-04

New artwork for sale! - "Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull" - https://t.co/7wosNKouTS

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2023-01-31

6 Jan 1776 Boston MA Gen sir Henry Clinton sails from Boston to rendezvous off the Cape Fear River with a flotilla under Commodore Peter Parker & Gen Charles Cornwallis. The combined fleets/forces would join Loyalists in the Carolinas.

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2023-01-06

10 Dec 1777 Masons Ford, PA. Gen Charles Cornwallis’s forces conduct a successful raid on Gulph’s Mill, seizing 2,000 sheep & cattle.

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2022-12-11

23 Sep 1781 Yorktown, VA. Gen Cornwallis informs Gen Clinton in NYC that he is trapped and can expect “the worst” if requested support does not arrive forthwith.

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2022-09-24

Port Cornwallis harbour, with fleet getting under weigh for Rancoon(Rangoon)
ships sailing
1825 etching drawn by Lt Joseph Moore
Engraved by: George Hunt
Published by: Kingsbury & Co
now Mayabunder, in North & Middle Andaman District
A & N Islands

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2022-08-07

Essays of Sir William Cornwallis MP (the younger) 1632.
I love that he's shown studying on one side and then writing on the other.

Cornwallis was on Essex's Irish campaign of 1599. A friend of John Donne, he died in 1614.

(British Museum)

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2022-06-14

8 Jun 1780 Charleston, SC Gen Henry Clinton sails for NYC, confident that the southern strategy is on track to subdue the Carolinas. He left Gen Charles Cornwallis as theatre commander.

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2022-06-09

A sweet picture of childhood for my Wee Viscount Brome, son of Marquess of Cornwallis of 🇺🇸Rev fame, rendered in pastels with his older sister Lady Mary & their adorable pink-cheeked cousin Miss Caroline Townshend. Their spaniel plays nearby.
Daniel Gardner c1781

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2022-06-04

12 May 1780. General Benjamin Lincoln surrenders Charleston, SC to Sir Henry Clinton. Clinton denied Lincoln the honors of war, an act that Colonel John Laurens who was with Lincoln never forgot & repaid in the terms of surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, VA Oct 19, 1781.

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2022-05-13

None of these are really my sonas, more so OCs but I hope they still count!

Baphie: Half cat half goat, really just a play on 'Baphomet'

Cinnabar and Painite: That's the gems that represent them, so tada lol

Colonel Cornelius Cornwallis: Corn farmer lol

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2022-04-29

16 Apr 1778 Portsmouth, England. Members of the Carlisle Committee depart for North America accompanied by the new 2nd in command of British forces, Gen Lord Charles Cornwallis.

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2022-04-17

2/2 - Surrounded by smoke and confusion, Cornwallis called for his troops to fall back three times. When night fell, Cornwallis declared, “We’ve got the old fox safe now. We’ll go over and bag him in the morning.” In the morning, Washington & his army had stolen away in the dark.

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2022-01-03

26 Dec 1780 Cheraw, SC. Gen Nathanael Greene’s army establishes camp, hoping to recruit the locals and strike British Gen Charles Cornwallis’s army should he move into NC.

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2021-12-27

16 Dec 1780 Charlottetown, NC. Gen Nathanael Greene decides to separate his forces in the face of Gen Cornwallis’s superior army & directs Gen Dan Morgan's corps of riflemen & Col Washington’s dragoons to join with militia west of the Catawba River.

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2021-12-17

24 Oct 1781 British fleet of 25 SOL & several frigates under Adm Graves, with a relief force of 7K Regulars, enter Chesapeake Bay. But with news of Cornwallis’s surrender & presence of French fleet blockading the approaches he turns back to NY on the 29th.

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2021-10-25

19 octobre 1781 : le général Cornwallis capitule face aux indépendantistes américains.

7500 soldats anglais de la base de Yorktown en Virginie se rendent. Ils étaient coupés de la mer par la flotte française du comte de Grasse, sans espoir de victoire.

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2021-10-20

Colonel Cornelius Cornwallis
(he grows corn)

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2021-10-17

9 Sep 1780 Defying orders from Gen Clinton in NYC, Gen Charles Cornwallis starts his move north to North Carolina by advancing on Charlotte.

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2021-09-10

The lovely faces of wives of British men who lost America in the American Revolution.

*Margaret Gage wife of Thomas Gage
*Countess Mary Howe wife of Richard Howe
*Countess Jemima Cornwallis wife of Charles Cornwallis
*Queen Charlotte wife of King George III

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2021-03-14