SC-10-11 Lord Cornwallis A

Marker text: LORD CORNWALLIS
(Continued from other side)
Cornwallis's troops were prevented from crossing Breach Inlet on June 28, 1776, by the fire of S. C. Rangers on the opposite shore. The British were defeated and sailed for New York. Cornwallis returned in 1780 as second in command of the army that captured Charles Town. Left in command of the South, he finally surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.
Erected 2005, replacing a marker erected in 1972 by the South Carolina Society, Sons of the American Revolution