Charles Cornwallis
- Title of Nobility: 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- 1762 and 1792: The Earl Cornwallis
- 1753 and 1762: Viscount Brome
English
British Army officer and governor - AsNotedIn
British Army officer and governor - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1777/04/13 | British launched a surprise attack on the American patriots | British Commander | Old Stone Arch Bridge | Middlesex | Battle of Bound Brook | ||
| 1777/04/13 | British launched a surprise attack on the American patriots | British Commander | Old Stone Arch Bridge | Bound Brook | Battle of Bound Brook | ||
| 1777/10/04 | British Commander | Cliveden, Chew House | Philadelphia, PA | Battle of Germantown | |||
| 1780/06/00 | Cornwallis takes command of the British Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. | British Lt General | Miles Brewton House | Charleston, SC | |||
| 1780/06/00 | Following the surrender of Charleston to the British in May 1780, Gen William Moultrie's memoirs recount a June 1780 meeting in the upstairs drawing room of Jacob Motte's home with British officers, Lord Cornwallis and General Patterson. | British Lt General | Hibben House | Mount Pleasant, SC | Siege of Charleston | ||
| 1780/08/16 | Battle of Camden | British Lt General | Camden Battlefield | Camden, SC | |||
| 1780/10/21 | The British Army under Cornwallis crosses the Catawba at Landsford in after withdrawing from North Carolina following the Battle of King's Mountain. | British Lt General | Landsford Canal | Landsford Canal State Park | Battle of Kings Mountain | ||
| 1781/03/15 | North Carolina Militia battle British Army Regulars | British Regular Commander | Guilford Courthouse National Military Park | Greensboro | Battle of Guilford Courthouse | ||
| 1781/05/00 | Lord Cornwallis stays at Hanover Tavern on his way to Yorktown. | British Commander | Hanover Tavern | Hanover | Leading to the Siege of Yorktown | ||
| 1781/06/00 | General Cornwallis and his British forces evict College President James Madison (cousin of the future American president) and his family from the President's House and set up headquarters. | British Commander | William and Mary's President's House | Williamsburg | Leading to the Siege of Yorktown | ||
| 1781/07/06 | Patriot Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, leading the advance forces of the Marquis de Lafayette, is ambushed near Green Spring by British forces led by Cornwallis in the last major land battle of the Virginia campaign prior to the Siege of Yorktown. | British Genaral | Green Spring | Williamsburg | Battle of Green Spring Farm | ||
| 1781/08/01 | Cornwallis occupies Yorktown | British General | Yorktown Battlefield | Yorktown, VA | Leading to the Siege of Yorktown | ||
| 1781/10/17 | General Cornwallis surrenders to General Washington in the field at Yorktown on 17 October 1781. | British Commander | Yorktown Battlefield | Yorktown, VA | Siege of Yorktown |
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