USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Significance: British army officer and official. Famously surrendered his army at Yorktown in October 1781, contributing to British defeat in American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Cornwallis was a British army officer who served as a general during the Revolutionary War (also known as the American Revolution). He led British forces to success in New York and Philadelphia before moving to the war’s southern theater in 1780.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lord Cornwallis was the First English Nobleman to come to India to undertake the office of the Governor General and also the first of Parliamentary Governor Generals of India. He was also the First Governor General to die in India during his second term.

Detailed explanation-4: -(1793), the enactment by which Lord Cornwallis, governor-general of India, gave legal form to the complex of measures that constituted the administrative framework in British India known as the Cornwallis, or Bengal, system.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cornwallis was possibly the most capable British general in that war, but he was more important for his achievements as British governor-general of India (1786–93, 1805) and viceroy of Ireland (1798–1801).