William Cornwallis

Royal Navy officer

1744 CE to 1819 CE

Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, GCB (February 10, 1744 – July 5, 1819) is 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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Topic: Anglo-Dutch War, Second
Location: Meiningen Thuringen Germany
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