William Cornwallis
Military Person
1744 – 1819
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Who was William Cornwallis?
Admiral the Honourable Sir William Cornwallis GCB was a Royal Navy officer. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, the 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British commander at the siege of Yorktown. Cornwallis took part in a number of decisive battles including the Siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and the Battle of the Saintes but is best known as a friend of Lord Nelson and as the commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. He is depicted in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur.
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- Born
- Feb 10, 1744
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Died
- Jul 5, 1819
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on July 23, 2013
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