No, General Cornwallis was a loyalist fought the patriots George Washington and then surrender
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He was a British Army's General and the Commander of the British forces at the battle of Yorktown.
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Lord Admiral William Cornwallis
The admiral that helped trap General Lord Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown was Comte (or admiral) de Grasse.
Lord Cornwallis said nothing to Washington upon his surrender at Yorktown, because they never met. Cornwallis could not bring himself to hand over his sword to the American commander, so he sent his second in command, General Charles O'Hara to do it for him, claiming indisposition. Washington had his own second in command Gemeral Benjamin Lincoln accept the surrender.