biography
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Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess
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pronunciation:
[kaw(r)nwolis]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1738–1805)
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| biography:
| British general and statesman, born in London, UK. He studied at the Military Academy of Turin, and served in the Seven Years' War. Though personally opposed to taxing the American colonists, he accepted a command in the war, and defeated Gates at Camden (1780), but was forced to surrender at Yorktown (1781). In 1786 he became Governor-General of India, where he defeated Tippoo Sahib, and introduced the series of reforms known as the Cornwallis Code. He returned in 1793, to be made marquess. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (1798–1801), and negotiated the Peace of Amiens (1802). He was re-appointed Governor-General of India in 1804. |
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