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Example sentences for: cornwallis

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In Windsor, stop off to see the 18th-century blockhouse at Fort Edward (named after Governor Edward Cornwallis), grim monument to the British military presence that prepared the deportation.
Indians were removed from key positions in the administration because Cornwallis considered them not yet up to the stricter ethical standards that were being introduced.
With the new title of Governor-General, Hastings and then Cornwallis were responsible to the British government rather than the Company.
(Cornwallis is unequivocally British to everyone but the French.)
Britten, Cornwallis, and all the rest get in not because of their abundant presence in texts, but because lexicographers feel that the bearers of these names are important folk.