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Noun Named Entity
SYL
Charles Cornwallis
EN
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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IS A
EN
general
EN
peer
Homo sapiens
CAUSE OF DEATH
EN
fever
CHILD
EN
Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis
CONFLICT
EN
American Revolution
EN
Seven Years' War
EN
Anglo-Mysore Wars
EN
Third Anglo-Mysore War
EN
French Revolutionary Wars
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COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
EN
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
EN
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Svensk uppslagsbok
Nordisk Familjebok
EN
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
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The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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EDUCATED AT
Eton college
EN
Military Academy of Modena
Clare College
FATHER
EN
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis
GIVEN NAME
Charles
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
EN
English
EN
Tamil
MEMBER OF POLITICAL PARTY
EN
Whig
MILITARY BRANCH
EN
British Army
MILITARY RANK
EN
general officer
EN
major-general
OCCUPATION
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diplomat
EN
official
EN
military officer
EN
politician
PARTICIPANT IN
EN
Irish Rebellion of 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH
Grosvenor Square
PLACE OF DEATH
Ghazipur
POSITION HELD
EN
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
EN
Member of Parliament
SEX OR GENDER
EN
male
SIBLING
EN
James Cornwallis, 4th Earl Cornwallis
William Cornwallis
SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION
EN
nobility
WORK LOCATION
ꠟꠘ꠆ꠒꠘ
WRITING LANGUAGE
EN
English
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SYL
Charles Cornwallis

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