Cornwallis

How To Use Cornwallis In A Sentence

• By 1781, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis was ordered to march into Virginia to await resupply near Chesapeake Bay.
• Thence proceeding westwardly along the south bank of the Cornwallis River to the point of commencement.
• Indeed, the effect of Cornwallis's kindly but unsmiling expression was much modified because his wig was slightly awry; Cornwallis still affected a horsehair bobwig of the sort that was now being relegated by fashion to noblemen's coachmen, and today it had a rakish cant that dissipated all appearance of dignity. Hornblower And The Hotspur
• They also don't have the easy target that Cornwallis gave them at Yorktown, though there is a small British force operating in the area.
• Appalachee troops also raided Cornwallis's supply lines so often that after less than a month it became quite clear that Cornwallis was the besieged, not the besieger. He Don't Know Him
• Some factories and manufacturers are creating jobs, especially in the nearby Cornwallis Park.
• Clinton reassured Cornwallis that he faced only 2000 regular Continentals, plus a small body of ill-armed "spiritless" "peasantry". Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Wentworth's influence had been primarily responsible for Cornwallis's decision initially to proclaim Jane in Ipswich despite Mary's repeated orders to the contrary. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
• Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.) Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
• Cornwallis fumed, and later historians have echoed his frustration, but should that be accepted as an objective judgement of the behaviour of Halifax's pioneers?