Charles Cornwallis’ Death – Cause and Date

The war hero Charles Cornwallis died at the age of 66. Here is all you want to know and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

British war hero who was a British Army officer and colonel administrator and led British generals during the American War of Independence.

He joined the army in 1757 and entered the House of Lords in 1762.

He was one of only five peers who voted against the 1765 Stamp Act out of sympathy with the colonists.

How did Charles Cornwallis die?

He arrived in India in July 1805, and died on 5 October of a fever at Gauspur in Ghazipur, at that time in the Varanasi kingdom. Cornwallis was buried there, overlooking the Ganges River, where his memorial is a protected monument maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India.