SALISBURY — Shots rang out at the Old Stone House as troops under the command of Gen. Nathanael Greene furiously fended off an attack from British soldiers fighting for Lord Charles Cornwallis. When ...

The British military leader was a key figure in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the American Revolutionary War.

Lord Cornwallis has gotten a bum rap in America. He was a gifted troubleshooter who implemented a more streamlined, sustainable version of British power, so that London could emerge triumphant and ...

The Dorchester County Archives & History Center and the Summerville-Dorchester Museum will present Howard Burnham, noted English writer and performer of literary and historical dramatic monologues, in ...

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Having been defeated in New England and fought to a standstill in the middle colonies, in 1778 the British, under Lord Cornwallis, shifted their effort at defeating the American war for independence ...

The Fall of 1781 presented Continental Army General George Washington with an important opportunity Aca,!" that of trapping and defeating British General Lord Cornwallis at a small Virginia port town ...