Examples of using Cornwallis in English and their translations into Russian
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Lafayette skirmished with Cornwallis, avoiding a decisive battle while gathering reinforcements.
Cornwallis still had time for a moment more of gossip.
Edward Cornwallis and Frederick Cornwallis were his younger brothers.
Cornwallis himself said the battle of Yorktown could not have been won without your decisive command!
While the reason for this is unknown, Cornwallis never blamed Medows for his actions on 6 February.
Someone- it must have been Cornwallis himself- had said that the information he had gathered from the French coast had been satisfactory and illuminating.
In response to these orders, Cornwallis moved to Yorktown in late July,
In 1804 he was in the East India Company's ship Marquis Cornwallis, which the government chartered for an expedition against the Seychelles.
It was a tribute to the organization set up by Cornwallis that during nearly six continuous months at sea Hotspur had not yet had to go on short allowance for water.
That's why Cornwallis is leaving
Cornwallis ordered Hanger to cautiously enter the town
I made the suggestion to Sir Edward,' Cornwallis was saying as he leisurely took his seat,'because otherwise we always find ourselves sitting next to our neighbours in the captains' list.
As after Kings Mountain, Cornwallis was later criticized for detaching part of his army without adequate support.
Hornblower,' prompted Cornwallis, apparently repeating something already said.
I am a direct descendant of general Sir Charles Cornwallis, who surrendered the British forces at Yorktown.
Frederick Cornwallis, created a Baronet in 1627,
have you Hornblower?' asked Cornwallis.
Greene first engaged Cornwallis at Cowan's Ford,
command of the Channel Fleet passed to Admiral Sir William Cornwallis.
In 1814 Lord Cornwallis assumed by Royal licence his maternal grandfather's surname of Mann in lieu of his patronymic.