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Losing America, conquering India : Lord Cornwallis and the remaking of the British Empire / Chaim M. Rosenberg.

Title: Losing America, conquering India : Lord Cornwallis and the remaking of the British Empire / Chaim M. Rosenberg.
Author: Rosenberg, Chaim M.
Publication: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

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Description

vii, 233 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"On October 19, 1781, British general Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War. Emulating Cornwallis's sense of duty to king and country, they vigorously pursued the conquest of India, put down the 1798 Irish Rebellion, defended Canada, defeated the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, occupied Ceylon and battled Napoleon"--

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Genre/Form

Biographies
History
Military history

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Settlement of North America -- 2. The 13 Colonies and Plantations -- 3. Rebellion -- 4. British Campaign of 1777 -- 5. The Penobscot Expedition -- 6. Mid-Atlantic Battles -- 7. The War of the South -- 8. Gibraltar -- 9. The Men and Officers of the British Army -- 10. The French Revolution and Flanders -- 11. Conquest of the Cape of Good Hope -- 12. Governor of the Cape Colony -- 13. Irish Rebellion of 1798 -- 14. India -- The Brightest Jewel -- 15. Craig in India -- 16. The Great Terror -- 17. Army of the Mediterranean -- 18. Carleton, Clarke, Simcoe and Craig in Canada -- 19. The John Henry Spy Scandal -- 20. Return to London.

ISBN

9781476668123
1476668124

LCCN

^^2017035529

OCLC

963357920
SCSB-12839108

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Harvard Library