Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730)
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2 days ago · Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805), 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis, was a British military officer and statesman best known for surrendering to George Washington at the Siege of Yorktown, the final decisive engagement of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). After the war, Cornwallis went on to serve in administrative posts in India and ...
3 days ago · On May 18, Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis and 2,500 British troops marched out of Charleston with orders from Clinton to subdue the backcountry and establish outposts. He made his way to Lenud's Ferry, crossed the Santee River, and made his way towards Camden.
3 days ago · April 25, 1781 at Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. When Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis retreated to Wilmington, he ordered Brig. Gen. Lord Francis Rawdon to defend South Carolina with a command of 9,000 British and Tory soldiers.
5 days ago · The tide had turned. In January 1781, under the leadership of Daniel Morgan at Cowpens, the Americans won an important victory, leading to Greene’s confrontation against Cornwallis at Guilford ...
4 days ago · This map, which dates from the 1780s, depicts the French and British fleets at the Battle of the Chesapeake, which occurred off the Virginia Capes on September 5, 1781, during the American Revolution. The French won what one naval historian has called “the decisive battle of the war.”.
5 days ago · Lord Cornwallis, the British commander in the south, then planned to move his troops through the Carolina backcountry providing encouragement to loyalists there. Cornwallis' intent was to enlist a strong loyalist militia which, supported by British regulars, would control the backcountry.
4 days ago · Though almost trapped by Cornwallis, who recovered Trenton on January 2, 1777, Washington made a skillful escape during the night, won a battle against British reinforcements at Princeton the next day, and went into winter quarters in the defensible area around Morristown.
