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To: robowombat
...the British ambassador, Kinahan Cornwallis, refused to allow British troops to enter the city until the pogrom was over.

I wonder if he was related to Charles Cornwallis, the loser at Yorktown?

4 posted on 01/13/2006 7:30:35 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
Yes, a collateral descendant.
6 posted on 01/13/2006 7:47:21 AM PST by robowombat
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