Cornwallis, Lord, surrenders in America.

Mrs. Cornwallis.

They were then marched against the British, and were soon defeated by Lord Cornwallis; it was a hard fight, and Paddy found himself among the slain.

This forced Washington to begin his famous retreat across the Jerseys, going first to Newark, then to New Brunswick, then to Trenton, and then over the Delaware into Pennsylvania, with the British under Cornwallis in hot pursuit.

Meantime Cornwallis, who had heard of the capture of the Hessians, came thundering down from New Brunswick with 8000 men and hemmed in the Americans between his army and the Delaware.

But on the night of January 2, 1777, Washington slipped away, passed around Cornwallis, hurried to Princeton, and there, on the morning of January 3, put to rout three regiments of British regulars.

Cornwallis, who was not aware that the Americans had left his front till he heard the firing in his rear, fell back to New Brunswick, while Washington marched unmolested to Morristown, where he spent the rest of the winter.

He was utterly unfit for it, and (August 16, 1780) was defeated and his army almost destroyed at Camden by Lord Cornwallis.

Enraged at these reverses, Cornwallis took the field and hurried to attack Greene, who, too weak to fight him, began a masterly retreat of 200 miles across Carolina to Guilford Courthouse, where he turned about and fought.

He was defeated, but Cornwallis was unable to go further, and retreated to Wilmington, N.C., with Greene in hot pursuit.

Cornwallis, as soon as Greene left him, hurried to Petersburg, Va.

Cornwallis took command of this, sent Arnold to New York, and had begun a campaign against Lafayette, when orders reached him to seize and fortify some Virginian seaport.

Surrender of Cornwallis.%Thus instructed, Cornwallis selected Yorktown, and began to fortify it strongly.

On the 14th Washington heard with delight that a French fleet was on its way to the Chesapeake, and at once decided to hurry to Virginia, and surround Cornwallis by land while the French cut him off by sea.

But Washington kept straight on, hemmed Cornwallis in by land and sea, and October 19, 1781, forced the British general to surrender.

Meantime a force sent against Greene under Cornwallis undertook to fortify Yorktown and hold it, and while so engaged was surrounded by Washington and the French fleet and forced to surrender.

March of Cornwallis from Charleston.

Cornwallis goes to Wilmington and Greene to South Carolina.

Cornwallis goes to Yorktown.

Surrender of Cornwallis. 1782-1783.

140, n. 2; Concord, iii. 314, n. 6; Congress, ii. 312, 409, 479; Constitutional Society, subscription raised by the, iii. 314, n. 6; Convict settlements, ii. 312, n. 3; Cornwallis's capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv.

CANTERBURY, iii. 314, 457; iv. 230, n. 2. CANTERBURY, Archbishops of, public dinners, their, iv. 367, n. 3; Cornwallis, Archbishop, Johnson's application to him, iii. 125; Seeker, Archbishop, Johnson asked to seek his patronage, i. 368.

CORNWALLIS, Archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 125.

CORNWALLIS, Lord, his capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv.

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