General Charles Cornwallis

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/General_Charles_Cornwallis
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:nobleman
gptkb:person
gptkb:British_Army_officer
gptkbp:awarded gptkb:Order_of_the_Bath
gptkb:Order_of_the_Garter
gptkbp:birthDate 1738-12-31
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:London,_England
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Ghazipur,_India
gptkbp:child gptkb:Charles_Cornwallis,_2nd_Marquess_Cornwallis
gptkbp:deathDate 1805-10-05
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Ghazipur,_India
gptkbp:education gptkb:Clare_College,_Cambridge
gptkb:Eton_College
gptkbp:father gptkb:Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Earl_Cornwallis
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis
gptkbp:governor gptkb:India
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label General Charles Cornwallis
gptkbp:militaryBranch gptkb:British_Army
gptkbp:militaryConflict gptkb:American_Revolutionary_War
gptkb:Irish_Rebellion_of_1798
gptkb:Third_Anglo-Mysore_War
gptkbp:militaryRank gptkb:General
gptkbp:mother gptkb:Elizabeth_Townshend
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:American_Revolutionary_War
gptkb:British_peer
gptkb:Third_Anglo-Mysore_War
gptkb:surrender_at_Yorktown
gptkbp:parliamentaryService Member of Parliament for Eye
Member of Parliament for Westminster
gptkbp:portrait gptkb:Thomas_Gainsborough
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:John_Macpherson
gptkbp:reformed gptkb:Cornwallis_Code
gptkb:Permanent_Settlement_of_Bengal
gptkbp:signature Charles Cornwallis Signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Jemima_Tullekin_Jones
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Richard_Wellesley
gptkbp:surrenderedTo gptkb:George_Washington
gptkb:Comte_de_Rochambeau
gptkb:Yorktown,_Virginia
1781-10-19
gptkbp:termEnd Governor-General of India, 1793
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1801
gptkbp:termStart Governor-General of India, 1786
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1798
gptkbp:title gptkb:1st_Marquess_Cornwallis
gptkb:2nd_Earl_Cornwallis
gptkb:Viscount_Brome
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:British_(during_American_Revolution)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5