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What was Charles Cornwallis occupation before during and after the revolutionary war?
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∙ 8y ago
He was cleaning toilets in the Buckingham Palace!After the war, he started his own grocery store named as "Cornwallis grocery store" !!
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The Battle of Yorktown came immediately before Cornwallis surrendered.
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In 1781, during what turned out to be the decisive (and final) major battle of the Revolutionary War, Lord Cornwallis and his large army were trapped at Yorktown through a dual movement by his American and French opponents. First, the ground troops hotly pursued and then deftly surrounded Cornwallis in what he thought would be a defensible position at Yorktown. Second, the French fleet won a clear victory over the British fleet in the waters offshore from Yorktown, thereby completing the encirclement of Cornwallis. It was only a matter of time before he would be forced to surrender.
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