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, ...

However, Maass used it to depict the British Southern Campaign that he stressed put Lord Charles Cornwallis in a position where he could not win. He had not been militarily successful in South ...

On Sunday, April 13, 1777, a four-column force of 4,000 British Crown troops led by Lord Charles Cornwallis attacked a small American garrison of about 500 commanded by General Benjamin Lincoln ...

We visited countless battlegrounds, including the site of British Gen. Charles Cornwallis’s 1781 surrender to Gen. George Washington in Yorktown, Virginia, and the site of Lt. Gen. John C.

Both the United States and England wanted to win by avoiding mistakes. British General Charles Cornwallis stumbled first, getting trapped at Yorktown with no hope of rescue by the Royal Navy ...

For the past couple years, he has impersonated Charles Cornwallis, a famous British general from the American Revolution. Osborne also said that Atkinson told him a little bit about her idea to ...

Many students of American history know that the Revolutionary War effectively ended at Yorktown, Virginia, when in 1781 the British forces under Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the American ...

King George III proclaimed the cessation of hostilities on October 12. In November, Marquess Charles Cornwallis was sent to France with plenipotentiary powers to negotiate a final agreement.

In effect, the American Revolution did not end when Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington; it has been a living and constantly growing set of truths. In the ensuing celebrations ...

In 1792, in the third Anglo Mysore war, the Governor-General of India Charles Cornwallis defeated him and imposed war damages. Tipu’s sons were taken hostage, brought to Madras and kept there ...

Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis. Most famously, Knox and his men were responsible for the transport of 60 tons of captured British cannons from New York to Boston in the dead of winter during the ...

Charles Cornwallis crossed from New York City on the night of Nov. 19, 1776. This crossing forced the American army to abandon Fort Lee and begin a retreat across New Jersey, leading to pivotal ...