Cornwallis was a man who could have thrust his hand in a flame if necessary, but...

Cornwallis was a man who could have thrust his hand in a flame if necessary, but not a man to organize the logistics and arrangements of a large campaign with a likely risk of failure. The smooth face in the Gainsborough portrait with no lines of thought or of frowns or of laughter-with no lines at all-tells as much. It is a face composed by a life of comfort and satisfaction without any need of desperate attempts. As

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