Cornwallis
Surrendered at Yorktown
Cornwallis refers to Charles Cornwallis, the British general whose surrender at Yorktown in 1781 effectively ended the American Revolutionary War.
The name appears in American history discussions and place names commemorating the period: The siege forced Cornwallis to surrender his entire army.
Several towns and geographic features bear the name.
Encirclement forcing surrender
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- 1781A specific year
- VirginiaMid-Atlantic American state
- capitulationComplete yielding to demands
redoubts · encirclement · blockade · defeat · independence · trenches · bombardment · fortifications
Widespread, not specialized
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
- tacticsMethods to achieve goals
- infantryGround combat troops
cavalry · artillery · battalion · regiment · commander · officer · march · flank
Low-ranking peer
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- titlesNames of creative works
- hereditaryPassed through generations
estate · manor · gentry · House of Lords · landed · lineage · peerage · Suffolk
Partition-split South Asian territory
- MysoreKarnataka city, former capital
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- CalcuttaWest Bengal's capital city
administration · reforms · taxation · conquest · diplomacy · annexation · Madras
siege
Encirclement forcing surrender
capitulation · redoubts · encirclement · blockade · defeat · independence · trenches · bombardment · fortifications · colonies
general
Widespread, not specialized
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
- tacticsMethods to achieve goals
infantry · cavalry · artillery · battalion · regiment · commander · officer · march · flank · maneuver
baron
Low-ranking peer
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- titlesNames of creative works
hereditary · estate · manor · gentry · House of Lords · landed · lineage · peerage · Suffolk · lordship
Bengal
Partition-split South Asian territory
- MysoreKarnataka city, former capital
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- treatyBinding pact between nations
Calcutta · administration · reforms · taxation · conquest · diplomacy · annexation · Madras
genealogy
Study of family descent
descendants · dynasty · bloodline · naval · legacy
- Revolutionary WarGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross flag
- military historybattles, soldiers, campaigns, officers, battlefields
- 18th-Century GeneralsGeorge Washington, Frederick the Great, Howe, Burgoyne, Lafayette
- Admiralsadmiral, Nelson, Nimitz, Halsey, Dewey
- British Raj FiguresLord Mountbatten, Wellesley, Ripon, Irwin, Curzon
- military leadersGeorge Washington, Napoleon, generals, general, commander
CornwallisGeorge Washington
CornwallisGeorge Washington
Thomas Jefferson · Benjamin Franklin · American patriot · Patrick Henry · Samuel Adams