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Noun: Cornwallis  korn'wó-lis
  1. Commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)
    - Charles Cornwallis, First Marquess Cornwallis

Type of: full general, general, peer [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Cornwallis, Stephen