The Cornwallis Cave

The Cornwallis Cave.

Cornwallis “cave,” a cavern created by stone quarrying for building material, was once believed to be the “grotto” into which British General Cornwallis retreated to avoid bombardment during the Revolutionary War battle. Subsequent research suggested this is ...

Site of Secretary Nelson's House/Cornwallis's HQ

Site of Secretary Nelson's House/Cornwallis HQ 

This is not to be confused with Thomas Nelson Jr’s home on Main Street.  Here Cornwallis had his headquarters when the siege opened. He remained until allied artillery forced him out. Secretary Thomas Nelson ...

Lord Cornwallis

(Front text)

Major General Charles Cornwallis established a brigade headquarters not far from this site on or around June 19, 1776. His brigade was part of a British army under the command of Sir Henry Clinton, which had occupied this ...

Cornwallis’s Headquarters

Nov. 21-24, 1777, Cornwallis had headquarters opposite the Court House. His troops camped on the Meeting House grounds. Many soldiers carried from the battle at Red Bank were buried here in the Strangers Burying Ground.

Marker is on N Broad Street ...

Charles Cornwallis

This building was

occupied by Lord

Charles Cornwallis,

Commander in Chief of

the British army,

in April, 1781.

In the basement was

a military prison.

New Hanover Historical Commission.

A.J. Howell. E.S. Martin

James Sprunt. W.A. McGirt

Marker is at the intersection of North 3rd Street (U.S. 74) and Market Street, ...

Fort Augusta ~ Fort Cornwallis / St. Paul's Episcopal Church

This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O`Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort ...

Lafayette and Cornwallis

The Marquis de Lafayette and his outnumbered colonial troops abandoned Richmond on 27 May 1781 to avoid Gen. Charles Cornwallis's approaching forces. Lafayette marched north from Richmond through Hanover County and likely crossed the nearby North Anna River by 31 ...

Cornwallis

Entered North Carolina

near here. January, 1781,

on his second invasion

of the state, Pursuing

Morgan and Green

Marker is on M H Camp Highway (U.S. 29).

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Cornwallis

The British Army under Gen. George Cornwallis marching to Virginia defeated the local Militia at the town of Halifax in May, 1781.

Marker is on Business U.S. 301 just north of South King Street (Business U.S. 301), on the right ...

Cornwallis

The British Army under Gen. Cornwallis marching to Virginia camped here at Crowell's plantation on May 8, 1781.

Marker is on Raleigh Road (State Highway 97) near Airport Road, on the right when traveling north.

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