Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), portrait painting by Thomas Gainsborough, oil on canvas, 1783.

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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, oil on canvas, 1783. Cornwallis was a British Army officer best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. His surrender to George Washington in 1781, at the Siege of Yorktown, signalled the end of hostilities in North America.

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