Crossword-Solution: CORNWALLIS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Big cheese in a red coat | 1 answer |
| British general at Yorktown | 1 answer |
| British officer in the American Revolution. | 1 answer |
| General at Yorktown | 1 answer |
| He surrendered to Washington in 1787 | 1 answer |
| His surrender at Yorktown helped end the Revolutionary War | 1 answer |
| Loser of 1781 | 1 answer |
| Yorktown loser, 1781. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with CORNWALLIS (5)
Whenever the town rejoiced for a battle won by Washington, or Gates, or Morgan or Greene, the news, in passing through the door of the Province House, as through the ivory gate of dreams, became metamorphosed into a strange tale of the prowess of Howe, Clinton, or Cornwallis.
This was the period when the English were prosecuting their campaigns in the South, checked by General Nathaniel Greene--when South Carolina was being overrun by Cornwallis, and Virginia itself was invaded by expeditions from New York under Philips and Arnold.
The commander-in-chief was succeeded by Earl Cornwallis, and his career was certainly obnoxious to no such reproaches.
Lord Cornwallis states the force of Gates to have been six thousand men, and his own at near two thousand: a great disparity indeed.
Thus, the earldom of Cornwallis was founded by Thomas Cornwallis, the Cheapside merchant; that of Essex by William Capel, the draper; and that of Craven by William Craven, the merchant tailor.
Quotes with CORNWALLIS (1)
Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1962–2022).