Cornwallis Audiobook Libro.fm

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The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty yearsthe soldier governor and statesman whose career covered America India Britain and Ireland

Charles First Marquis of Cornwallis 17381805 was a leading figure in late eighteenthcentury Britain His career spanned the American War of Independence Irish Union the French Revolutionary Wars and the building of the Second British Empire in Indiaand he has long been associated with the unacceptable face of Britains colonial past

In this vivid new biography Richard Middleton shows that this portrait is far from accurate Cornwallis emerges as a reformer who had deep empathy for those under his authority and was clear about his obligation to govern justly He sought to protect the population of Bengal with a constitution of written laws insisted on Catholic emancipation in Ireland and recognized the limitations of British power after the American war Middleton reveals how Cornwalliss rewarding of merit search for economy and elimination of corruption helped improve the machinery of British government into the nineteenth century