Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), engraving after a portrait by John Singleton Copley, c 1795.

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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), a British Army officer best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. His surrender to George Washington in 1781, at the Siege of Yorktown, signalled the end of hostilities in North America. Engraving after a portrait by John Singleton Copley, c 1795.

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