English general (1738-1805) who fought against Washington during the American Revolution and was finally defeated at Yorktown. ALS signed “Cornwallis,” one page, 7.25 x 8.75, June 3, 1798. Letter to Captain Wormeley, in full: "You have given so ingenuous and so honorable an account of your public conduct, and you have shewn so firm an attachment to this country, that altho' I have not the honor of your personal acquaintance, I should feel great pleasure in being able to comply with your wishes. But my extensive military connexions, and the arduous situations in which I have acted both in India and America, have established so many claims upon me, (no small number of which are on account of the American Loyalists who served with me) that my List for Cadets is beyond measure loaded, and I am truly concerned to say that I can have no hope, without being guilty of a breach of actual engagement, of having it in my power to place your son in the Royal Academy of Woolwich, before he will have passed the age prescribed by the regulations." In fine condition.
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