Similar words: cornwall, gunwale, moonwalk, buchenwald, corn, acorn, scorn, corny. Meaning: n. commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805).
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1. Cornwallis did not earn a reputation for gallant behavior.
2. Before researching Cornwallis, I had been seeing history in terms of black and white, good and bad.
3. I saw hope dawning on the faces of Cornwallis and Krishna.
4. I knew that Cornwallis had surrendered to George Washington, at Yorktown, Virginia.
5. Cornwallis:British military and political leader who commanded forces in North Carolina during the american Revolution. His surrender at Yorktown in 1781 marked the final British defeat.
6. The trishaw picked us up from Fort Cornwallis, the financial center of Penang at George Town, the capital of Penang state.
7. American Revolution (1781): the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops.
8. General Cornwallis formally surrendered on October 17, 1781. This was the last significant battle of the war.
9. Greatly helped by the French Navy, American and French troops closed in on the British forces in Yorktown, Virginia, commanded by General Cornwallis.
10. Just before the next sleep period, I watched the faces of Krishna and Cornwallis and saw there a seesaw of hope and despair.
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11. By late August 1781, French ships had blockaded Yorktown so that no British reinforcements could reach Cornwallis.
12. By October, Washington's army and General Jean Rochambeau's French troops surrounded Cornwallis and bombarded the British with French artillery.
13. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
14. Washington then moved around an army commanded by General Charles Cornwallis and attacked British troops near Princeton, New Jersey, on January 3, 1777.
15. To test the methylmercury link, Drevnick's team has begun new experiments with sediment samples collected from Cornwallis Island, Canada.