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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8191156, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1794 CORNWALLIS</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>One Penny Conder Token</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1434115[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1434116[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On October 19, 1781, General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown Virginia.</p><p>The Battle of Yorktown was the last major battle of the American Revolution.</p><p>At the formal surrender ceremony, General Cornwallis did not attend pretending to be sick. He sent General Charles O&#039;Hara, to surrender his sword to George Washington.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the Revolutionary War he was appointed in February 1786 to serve as both Commander-in-Chief of British India. He oversaw the consolidation of British control over peninsular India.</p><p><br /></p><p>in 1792, he became Marquess Cornwallis in recognition for his performance in the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Cornwallis returned to England in 1793.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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