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Categories: All articles needing additional references, British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War, Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, Military personnel from London, Knights of the Garter
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Cornwallis  Charles Cornwallis  First Marquess Cornwallis  Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis  Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis Cornwallis
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Commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805) WordNet 3.0
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Commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. Wikipedia
British Army officer and colonial administrator Wikipedia Disambiguation
British general, colonial official, diplomat Wikidata
IS A
general
peer
homo
CAUSE OF DEATH
fever
CHILD
Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis
CONFLICT
American Revolution
Seven Years' War
Anglo-Mysore Wars
Third Anglo-Mysore War
French Revolutionary Wars
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COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Svensk uppslagsbok
Nordisk familjebok
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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EDUCATED AT
Eton College
Military Academy of Modena
Clare College, Cambridge
FATHER
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis
GIVEN NAME
Charles
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
Tamil
MEMBER OF POLITICAL PARTY
Whig
MILITARY BRANCH
British Army
MILITARY RANK
general officer
major-general
OCCUPATION
diplomat
official
military officer
politician
PARTICIPANT IN
Irish Rebellion of 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH
Grosvenor Square
PLACE OF DEATH
Ghazipur
POSITION HELD
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Member of Parliament
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
James Cornwallis, 4th Earl Cornwallis
William Cornwallis
SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION
nobility
WORK LOCATION
London
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, First Marquess Cornwallis
Wikipedia
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Wikidata
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
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Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis Cornwallis, Charles, 2nd Earl Cornwallis, Charles, Lord Cornwallis, Charles, Viscount Brome, Charles cornwallace, Charles Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl, Viscount Brome, Baron Cornwallis of Eye Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Earl Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Viscount Brome, Cornwallis, Cornwallis, Charles, Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis, Gen. Cornwallis, General Charles Cornwallis, General Cornwallis, Jemima, Countess Cornwallis, Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, Lord Charles Cornwallis, Lord Cornwallis, The Marquess Cornwallis
Wikidata Alias
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Charles Cornwallis, Cornwallis, The Earl Cornwallis, The Most Honourable The Marquess Cornwallis, Viscount Brome

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