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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.
With a well-paid civil service, Clive’s successors — Warren Hastings and Lord Cornwallis — avoided the collectors by padding their salaries with private deals.
To Americans, Cornwallis was History (i.e., irrelevant) after Yorktown.
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.
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.