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Cornwallis, Charles

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  1. A British nobleman and general who commanded British forces in the Revolutionary War. The surrender of Lord Cornwallis to George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 ended the hostilities of the revolution.

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Cornwallis, Charles, defeated by Washington, 256; in North Carolina, 269; surrenders at Yorktown, 270.

From Beginnings of the American People by Dodd, William E.

Cornwallis, Charles, 85, 124, 272, 278, 311, 313, 328.

From American Men of Action by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, xxii, 9, 43, 86, 87, 89, 90.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

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