Cornwallis

Corn·wal·lis

1st Marquis Cornwallis 1738-1805; Eng. general & statesman: commanded Brit. forces during American Revolution

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In 1824 Port Cornwallis was the rendezvous of the fleet carrying the army to the first Burmese war.
His mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, divorced her second husband, George Cornwallis-West, in 1913; and married in 1918, as her third husband, Montague Phippen Porch, formerly a Government official in Nigeria.
He held a brigade command in the war against Tippoo, and served under Cornwallis in the Seringapatam operations of 1792, being promoted colonel in 1795.
There was much sickness, and after two years, urged by Admiral Cornwallis, the government transferred the colony to the N.E.

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