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=Charles Cornwallis= toc 

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 *  Name: Charles Cornwallis
 *  Hometown: London
 *  Date of Birth: December 31st 1738
 *  Job title: General
 *  Education: Eton College

Friends
King George III, he's an awesome king.

Benidict Arnold, we both fought the in the war. Stupid patriots.

Nathan Hale, awesome loyalist.

Thomas Gage, another general in the British army.

Charles Townshend, another Charles, a loyal British soldier.

About Me
Hi, my name is Charles Cornwallis and I was a British General in the American Revolutionary war. I think the patriots were really overreacting about the war. They were a part of Britain. They were under our protection. We had just won the French and Indian war, but we had a debt to pay for our soldiers. I thought the colonists could understand why we performed the stamp act, and why we taxed them, and some of them did, the loyalists, they understood, but the patriots decided to go down the wrong road. Just because the patriots over reacted about helping their country, we had to start a war.

The patriots were very outrageous about such a silly topic. King George and I wanted to settle this peacefully, but to the patriots, unless the taxes stopped, they would not stop. On the night of March 5th, 1770, there was a fight. On such a silly topic the patriots had to rage and threw snowballs and throwing insults at a loyal British soldier. They were acting like five year olds. Then, it got serious. More soldiers came down and the crowd of patriots got larger, and we had no choice, but to start shooting into the crowd. That was known as the Boston Massacre, which led onto more and more battles.

The last battle, The Battle of Yorktown, was the most outrageous battle. On such a silly topic, the patriots had us surrounded. We had no choice, but to do the right thing and surrender. How was I supposed to let many British soldiers die on such a silly topic. By not giving in to the patriots, we would’ve lost many more lives, I could loose my own life, and we would still have to keep fighting about this silly topic as paying a debt for your country. We had no choice but to surrender.

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 *  Wall Post #1: March 5th, 1770- The Boston Massacre
 *  Wall Post #2: April 19th, 1775- The battle of Lexington and Concord (the first official battle in the revaluation)
 *  Wall Post #3: October 19th, 1781- The Battle of Yorktown (where the British surrendered to the patriots)
 *  Wall Post #4: September 3rd, 1783- The Treaty of Paris was signed (The treaty that officially ended the war)