1. Edward Cornwallis was then made Governor of Nova Scotia, one of the colonies in North America, and assigned to establish the new town of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
28 Facts About Edward Cornwallis
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Later Edward Cornwallis returned to London, where he was elected as MP for Westminster and married the niece of Robert Walpole, Great Britain's first Prime Minister.
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Edward Cornwallis responded with the extirpation proclamation of 1749, orders to bring back scalps of those he considered to be rebels.
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Edward Cornwallis's administration erected forts at Grand Pre, Chignecto and Halifax and organized a militia of 840 men.
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Edward Cornwallis is commemorated in Nova Scotia in the naming of its rivers, parks, streets, towns, and buildings.
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Such historic commemoration of Edward Cornwallis has become controversial because of the extirpation proclamation.
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Edward Cornwallis was the son of Charles, 4th Baron Edward Cornwallis, and Lady Charlotte Butler, daughter of the Earl of Arran and his wife.
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The Edward Cornwallis family possessed estates at Culford in Suffolk and the Channel Islands.
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At age 18, in 1731, Edward Cornwallis was commissioned into the 47th Regiment of Foot.
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General Thomas Bligh, Edward Cornwallis participated in the Battle of Fontenoy during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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Edward Cornwallis fought under Colonel Craig, who was killed in action.
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Edward Cornwallis took over command of the regiment and organised a retreat.
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Edward Cornwallis played an important role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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Edward Cornwallis ordered his men to chase off livestock, and destroy crops and food stores.
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In 1747 Edward Cornwallis was made a Groom of the Bedchamber, serving in the households of both kings George II and George III until 1764.
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Edward Cornwallis became MP for Eye from 1743 to 1749 and then for Westminster for 1753 to 1762, in Parliament he was seen as an Old Whig.
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Edward Cornwallis immediately had to decide where to site the town.
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Edward Cornwallis decided to land the settlers and build the town at the site of present-day Downtown Halifax; it was halfway up the harbour with deep water, and protected by a natural, defensible hill.
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When Edward Cornwallis arrived in Halifax, there had already been a decades-long history of the Mi'kmaq participating in raids on British settlements in present-day Maine, often allied with French colonists in continuing national tensions.
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Edward Cornwallis met with chiefs of the Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Mi'kmaq from Chignecto in the Summer of 1749.
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Edward Cornwallis interpreted the cessation of attacks as the Mi'kmaq wanting peace.
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Edward Cornwallis laid the foundation for and was at the signing of the Treaty of 1752 with Major Cope, attending at Cope's request.
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Admiral John Byng called a council of war, which involved Edward Cornwallis, and advised the return of the fleet to Gibraltar leaving the garrison at Menorca to its fate.
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Edward Cornwallis testified that he had not disobeyed orders, but that it was "impracticable" to land at Menorca due to stiff French defences.
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Mordaunt and Edward Cornwallis carried the day and the mission was abandoned.
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In 1763, Edward Cornwallis married Mary Townshend, daughter of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend and Dorothy Townshend, the sister of Robert Walpole.
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The Edward Cornwallis statue was covered with a tarpaulin, then removed by order of Halifax Regional Council on 30 January 2018 and placed into storage.
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The Canadian Coast Guard vessel CCGS Edward Cornwallis was renamed CCGS Kopit Hopson 1752 in honor of Mi'kmaq Chief Jean-Baptiste Cope and governor of Nova Scotia Peregrine Hopson.