his father, the fifth Baron Cornwallis, had been rewarded as a Viscount and the first Earl

Cornwallis. In 1661, Sir Frederick Cornwallis was rewarded a baron try by Charles II for

service to the Stuarts. His mother was the niece of Sir Robert Walpole. His uncle became

he Archbishop of Canterbury. Cornwallis was educated at Eton and moved in elite social

In 1756, about a month before his eighteenth birthday, Cornwallis purchased an ensign's

commission in the Grenadier Guards and then took the extraordinary measure of

attending a military school in Turin, Italy to actually study for the position. He actually

only stayed a few months, because he learned that his regiment had been called up to

serve in the Seven Years' War in the allied army under Prince Ferdinand in 1758. He

never caught up with his own regiment, but he soon became aide-de-camp to the British

second-in-command Marquis of Granby, who would eventually command all British

forces on the European continent. He was present at the Battle of Minden on August 1,

the Redcoats off till November who were in Long Island at the time. Washington put Nathaniel

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