Charles Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) was a British military commander and colonial governor. In the United States, he is best remembered as one of the primary British generals in the American Revolutionary War. His 1781 defeat by a combined American-French force at the Siege of Yorktown is generally considered the end of the War.

Charles Cornwallis in Atlantis
Charles Cornwallis began his military career in the Atlantean theater of the Seven Years' War. Although merely an inexperienced lieutenant colonel, Cornwallis became the senior British officer in the theater by accident not once, but twice.