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Cornwallis: A Great British General

How We Became America: The Untold Story

Who was Charles Cornwallis, Britain’s commander of the Southern Armies in the Revolutionary War? A respected and long serving general, his doomed attempts to win hearts and minds in the Southern colonies led directly to the British defeat at Yorktown. (Runtime 3:26)

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