On a sandy beach at low tide looking out to sea. There are rain clouds and rain on the horizon.

We finished our early morning walk just as the drizzle set in. #Cornwallis #autumn #aotearoa

Looking up the #Pamunkey River in West Point, Va., where it meets the York River. That's York as in #Yorktown where #Cornwallis surrendered to George #Washington about 15 miles downriver.
#BlueskyArtShow #sunlight

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE 1782 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WARS YORK TOWN Gen WASHINGTON

#books #antiquarian #history #18thcentury #America #news #magazine #GeorgeWashington #Revolution #military #war #siege #Britain #Boston #Virginia #Cornwallis #bookauction
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Après que la #flotte
a repoussé la #RoyalNavy
le 5 sept.

Les #troupes #terrestres
(21 000 H)
ont lancé l' #assaut
(28 sept 1781)
forçant #Cornwallis
à se rendre le 19 oct 1781.

#Capitulation mettant fin à la guerre … assurant l'indépendance des #USA, formalisée par
le #Traité de #Paris en 1783!

SPIES&VESPERS
@SpiesVespers
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Jul 14
#OTD July 14, 1814 #James_Lovell died. Member of the #Continental_Congress and America's first #cryptographer Broke #Cornwallis ciphers.

2/ Infatri, il leader americano 🇺🇸, il giorno di #Natale, attraversò il #Delaware, sconfisse gli Inglesi prese #Trenton ⚔️, prese un gran bottino e si ritirò oltre il Delaware prima della reazione di #Cornwallis. Una vittoria strepitosa, degna di #Napoleone.
#GeorgeWashington 👇

Portrait of George Washington.

Portrait of Earl Cornwallis

3 January 1777: George #Washington defeated British General Lord #Cornwallis at the Battle of #Princeton in New Jersey. #History

Lord Cornwallis (1793) revamped courts further. British judges replaced Qazis for criminal cases, but civil disputes still followed personal laws. Institutions like the Sadar Diwani Adalat were Mughal-inspired. 🏛️ #Cornwallis #JudicialReform #India (7/10)

Paris le 18 Brumaire an 10 de la République frangaise. ‘ Le Ministre de la Police Générale de la Republique, ’ A Lord Cornwallis | Je regrette beaucoup, Mylord, que votre Santé ne | vous permette pas de vous rendre a mon invitation. Si elle peut étre agréable a Votre fils et aux l personnes de votre intimité, je vous prie de leur en | faire part, et de leur témoigner tout le plaisir que j'aurais a les regevoir. | Veuillez recevoir I'assurance de ma haute considération | [signed] Fouché

Letier folded as envelope: A Son excellence le Lord Cornwallis a Paris [Red stamp diagonally to right:] Postes Bau prés les Consuls Le Ministre de la Police Générale Red stamp on circle upside down: 18 e —

Americans know of the surrender of #Cornwallis at #Yorktown but not of his later career in #India & #Ireland. He also served as plenipotentiary to France during peace negotiations

Police Minister Fouché here expresses his regret that Cornwallis cannot attend a social event
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New Review- Happy 4th Guys! #AmericanRevolution #AmericanWarOfIndependence #AWI #ARW #WargameResearch #TheAmericanRevolution1774to83 #DanielMarston #EssentialHistoriesSeries #OspreyPublishing #Lexington #Concord #Washington #Cornwallis #July4th #Tricorn #BlackPowder #18thCenturyWargames

Why do people think statues are their heritage? They aren't they are some typically dead person who formed the world you live in. If someone around you starts saying statues are their heritage don't blink. #Cornwallis

#Cornwallis also murdered & raped Gaels (aka #Scottish #Highlanders). Historians: "unrestrained violence." Take the statue down, #halifax

#ProudBoys #FirstNations #cornwallis #confederateflag