... the equivalent of a millionaire and a local hero rich enough to repair his family home, buy another nearby, purchase an estate in Ireland and snap up a house in London's fashionable Berkeley Square. Just for good measure, he also helped himself to a "rotten borough" seat in Parliament. Yet the company was sinking toward bankruptcy. In 1773, the directors had to appeal to the ... charges in effect blaming him for everything that had gone wrong in India. After a spectacular, protracted trial he was acquitted. Lord Cornwallis, the patrician soldier who had surrendered to George Washington ...

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