SALISBURY — Shots rang out at the Old Stone House as troops under the command of Gen. Nathanael Greene furiously fended off an attack from British soldiers fighting for Lord Charles Cornwallis. When ...

“Every memory palace should have a damp basement / with frozen pipes and mouse bones, / shreds of pink insulation, you dare not enter.” Julia had longed to be an educated mother like Vroni, but there ...

Lord Cornwallis has gotten a bum rap in America. He was a gifted troubleshooter who implemented a more streamlined, sustainable version of British power, so that London could emerge triumphant and ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Richard Brookhiser talked about Revolutionary War era painter John Trumbull's painting "Surrender of Lord Cornwallis." The American Revolution ...

For decades, the large house at Third and Market streets in downtown Wilmington was known to locals as "The Cornwallis House." Whether you still call it the Cornwallis House or use its more ...

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks during the bicentennial celebration of President Abraham Lincoln's birth as he stands in front of John Trumbull's 1817 painting "Surrender of Lord Cornwallis," ...