Kamis, 06 April 2017

Cornwallis: From Yorktown to India — and Redemption

In America, General Cornwallis lost the Yorktown battle. In India, he won acclaim as a military and political leader. IN JANUARY 1782, General Charles, 2nd Earl Cornwallis returned to England as a prisoner of war on parole. George Washington and his French allies had trapped him in the Virginia tobacco port of Yorktown forcing him …

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