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| Tango01 | 14 Sep 2016 3:15 p.m. PST |
…Charles Cornwallis and the British Imperial Revival, 1780-1801 "On October 19, 1781, Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, to allied American and French forces under the command of George
Washington after a siege that lasted weeks and an attempted British evacuation that failed. Cornwallis had requested relief from his commander-in-chief, Sir Henry Clinton,
for weeks, but Clinton and his reinforcements only grudgingly moved out from New York that very day. The defeat and humiliation-and perhaps illness -weighed so
heavily on Cornwallis that he did not attend capitulating ceremonies. No doubt concerns about the opinions of Parliament, king, and country tortured his mind. British generals…"
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| Supercilius Maximus | 14 Sep 2016 3:20 p.m. PST |
People forget that, in a military career spanning over half a century and three continents, Yorktown was Cornwallis's only defeat – and that was by no means entirely his fault. |
| Tango01 | 15 Sep 2016 10:33 a.m. PST |
You are right… we fight well in India… Amicalement
Armand |
| Tango01 | 15 Sep 2016 10:36 p.m. PST |
Sorry… I want to write HE fight well in India… Amicalement
Armand |
| Supercilius Maximus | 16 Sep 2016 5:49 a.m. PST |
I was going to say, you don't look that old…… |
| Tango01 | 16 Sep 2016 11:16 a.m. PST |
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| 42flanker | 16 Sep 2016 11:59 a.m. PST |
-and, of course, Guilford Courthouse was a victory- however costly. appropriate emoticon |
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