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British Military Personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Griffiths, Alexander Dirom

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Description:Chapters: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Griffiths, Alexander Dirom. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. His 1781 surrender to a combined American-French force at the Siege of Yorktown ended significant hostilities in North America, but is often incorrectly considered the end of the war; in fact, it continued for a further two years. Despite this defeat, he retained the confidence of successive British governments and continued to enjoy an active career. In India, where he served two terms as governor general, he is remembered for promulgating the Permanent Settlement. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he argued for Catholic emancipation and oversaw the response to the 1798 Irish Rebellion and a French invasion of Ireland, and was instrumental in the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Cornwallis was the eldest son of Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis (later 1st Earl Cornwallis) (29 March 1700 23 June 1762), in the Howells, near Bristol) and was born at Grosvenor Square in London, England, even though his family's estates were in Kent. The Cornwallis family was established at Brome Hall, near Eye, in Suffolk, in the 14th century, and its members occasionally represented the county in the House of Commons over the next three hundred years. Frederick Cornwallis, created a Baronet in 1627, fought for King Charles I, and followed King Charles II into exile....More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2336290We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with British Military Personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Griffiths, Alexander Dirom. To get started finding British Military Personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Griffiths, Alexander Dirom, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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30
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Release
2010
ISBN
1156980992

British Military Personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Griffiths, Alexander Dirom

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Description: Chapters: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Griffiths, Alexander Dirom. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. His 1781 surrender to a combined American-French force at the Siege of Yorktown ended significant hostilities in North America, but is often incorrectly considered the end of the war; in fact, it continued for a further two years. Despite this defeat, he retained the confidence of successive British governments and continued to enjoy an active career. In India, where he served two terms as governor general, he is remembered for promulgating the Permanent Settlement. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he argued for Catholic emancipation and oversaw the response to the 1798 Irish Rebellion and a French invasion of Ireland, and was instrumental in the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Cornwallis was the eldest son of Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Cornwallis (later 1st Earl Cornwallis) (29 March 1700 23 June 1762), in the Howells, near Bristol) and was born at Grosvenor Square in London, England, even though his family's estates were in Kent. The Cornwallis family was established at Brome Hall, near Eye, in Suffolk, in the 14th century, and its members occasionally represented the county in the House of Commons over the next three hundred years. Frederick Cornwallis, created a Baronet in 1627, fought for King Charles I, and followed King Charles II into exile....More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2336290We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with British Military Personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Griffiths, Alexander Dirom. To get started finding British Military Personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Griffiths, Alexander Dirom, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
30
Format
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Publisher
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Release
2010
ISBN
1156980992

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