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5 giorni fa · Sir Charles Cornwallis, in Valladolid, to Mr. Thomas Wilford, president of the Spanish Company. (fn. 1) Sir, my purpose in staying Owsley here grew never out of any desire I had to serve myself of him for any business concerning my own employment, having brought with me one very able and sufficient for that purpose.
3 giorni fa · Greene continued to stay ahead of Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis. Cornwallis knew that his large wagon trains were slowing him down. He decided to burn all items that were not necessary for battle and left stragglers behind so that the army could move faster.
1 giorno fa · Wayne, with a force of 800 men, was unknowingly facing the entire British Army of 5,000 men under Gen. Charles Cornwallis at Green Spring. Wayne tried to confuse the British by sending marksmen forward and by sending runners back 5 miles to the Continental Army to let them know what he was facing.
3 giorni fa · Cornwallis sub-leased certain portions of the Holborn frontage, extending south to the site of Parker Street, and on these portions houses had been erected before 1650. No records of the sub-leases have been found, but a part at least of the frontage to Holborn had been sub-leased before 1634.
In Virginia Cornwallis encountered disaster. Adding British raiding contingents there to the men he led from North Carolina, he collected an army of 7,000 troops, campaigned vigorously against the patriots without decisive achievement, and then built a base at Yorktown.
4 giorni fa · On April 13, under the command of Cornwallis, 4,000 British and Hessian troops were used in a 4-pronged surprise attack against the garrison at Bound Brook. Two groups moved north along both sides of the Raritan River, while a third contingent crossed the river further up to attack from the West, and the fourth group moved from the ...
3 giorni fa · In 9th Edward II. John de Hockwold was returned as lord; and in the 15th of the said King, a fine was levied between the said John de Hockwold and Joan his wife, querents, William de Suthery, parson of Hargrave, and John Luton, deforciants, of messuages and lands in this town, &c. But in the 20th Edward III.
