Second in command of this campaign was General Charles Cornwallis, who landed in Charleston with 9,000 British soldiers. WINEGARD: And these soldiers come primarily from northern England and ...

Along the way, his Benjamin Martin meets British Lord Gen. Charles Cornwallis, fights alongside his own son and endures the evils of war. The movie got us wondering what nuggets of real history ...

Charles Cornwallis (December 31, 1738 - October 5, 1805) was a British Army general and official who became the first Governor-General appointed under the Government of India Act. Why is he called ...

His research led him to British commander Charles Cornwallis, who occupied the Old Stone House during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776. After surrendering to George Washington at Yorktown in 1781, ...

(WHTM) — It’s 1781. In Yorktown, Virginia, a British army under the command of Major General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, surrenders to a combined force of Americans under ...

Charles Cornwallis, would sweep through the Carolinas and into Virginia, enlisting loyalist Americans to take up arms against their neighbors. The southern campaign of 1780-81, Alan Pell Crawford ...

Experts believe the barracks were burned by British troops under the direction of General Charles Cornwallis in 1781. An archaeology team has started unearthing artifacts that show the life of ...

I frequently visit the park, the hallowed ground where almost 250 years ago General George Washington led the Continental Army to a momentous victory over Lord Charles Cornwallis and the British ...

On Sunday, April 13, 1777, 4,000 British troops led by Lord Charles Cornwallis attacked a small American garrison of about 500 commanded by General Benjamin Lincoln in Bound Brook, the oldest town ...