General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis. 2 connected concepts: François Joseph Paul de Grasse (related to), Yorktown, 1781: Trapping Cornwallis (related to).