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Admiral the Honourable Sir William Cornwallis GCB (10 February 1744 – 5 July 1819) was a Royal Navy officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, the 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British commander at the siege of Yorktown. Cornwallis took part in a number of decisive battles including the Siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and the Battle of the Saintes but is best known as a friend to Nelson and as the Commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic war. He is depicted in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur.

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  • Admiral the Honourable Sir William Cornwallis GCB (10 February 1744 – 5 July 1819) was a Royal Navy officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, the 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British commander at the siege of Yorktown. Cornwallis took part in a number of decisive battles including the Siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and the Battle of the Saintes but is best known as a friend to Nelson and as the Commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic war. He is depicted in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur.
  • The Honourable Sir William Cornwallis, GCB (born 10 February 1744, died 5 July 1819), was an admiral and commander-in-chief of the Channel fleet during Hornblower's tour as lieutenant aboard HMS Renown, and when Hornblower commanded Atropos in the blockade of Brest. It was Cornwallis who gave Hornblower orders concerning Barry McCool, deserter, during his court martial and punishment by hanging.
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  • 1744-02-10(xsd:date)
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  • Portsmouth
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  • Commander-in-Chief Channel Fleet
  • Commander-in-Chief East Indies
  • HM Yacht Charlotte
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  • Blue Billy Coachee, Billy go tight and Mr Whip
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  • Sir William Cornwallis
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  • Admiral William Cornwallis after a Portrait by Daniel Gardner, Published in the Naval Chronicle
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  • 1819-07-05(xsd:date)
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  • *Seven Years' War **Siege of Louisbourg (1758) **Battle of Quiberon Bay *American War of Independence **Battle of Grenada **Battle of St. Kitts **Battle of the Saintes *Third Anglo-Mysore War **Reduction of Pondicherry *French Revolutionary Wars **First Battle of Groix *Napoleonic Wars
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  • 1768(xsd:integer)
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