=Cornwallis, Charles, first Marquis= (1738-1805). Served in American Revolutionary War; won victory at Camden over Gates, 1780, and in 1781 defeated Greene at Guildford. In 1781 hemmed in at Yorktown between the American army and the French fleet, and forced to surrender. Governor-general and commander-in-chief of Bengal, 1786-1793. Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1798; British plenipotentiary to negotiate peace of Amiens, 1801. Five years later again returned to India as governor-general, and died at Ghazeepore. =Index=: =Bk= British plenipotentiary in negotiating peace of Amiens, 30. =Dr= Surrender at Yorktown, 191. =Hd= His capitulation, 211-212, 297. =Bib.=: Cornwallis, _Despatches_; Kaye, _Lives of Indian Officers_; _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Johnston, _Yorktown Campaign_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._ =Cornwallis, Edward.= Born, 1812. Member of the British House of Commons for Eyre, 1749. Appointed governor of Nova Scotia, 1749. Sailed from England with 2576 emigrants and on July 2, 1749, reached the harbour of Chebucto, the site of the present city of Halifax. His administration marked by energetic measures against the discontented Acadians. Returned to England, 1752. Elected to the House of Commons for Westminster, 1753; major-general, 1759; subsequently governor of Gibraltar. =Bib.=: Campbell, _History of Nova Scotia_; Murdoch, _History of Nova Scotia_; _Selections from the Public Documents of Nova Scotia_, ed. by Akins. =Corpo, Father.= =L= Dies a martyr, 62. =Correspondent and Advocate.= Newspaper. =Index=: =Mc= Newspaper, published by Dr. O'Grady, 259. =Corrupt Practices.= =BL= Bill in reference to, introduced, 99; excites great public attention, 99; passed by Assembly, but rejected by Legislative Council, 100. =Corvée.= =Hd= Ancient French custom, 122; used in transporting provisions to upper posts, 140; complaint against Haldimand's use of, 182, 291; MacLean asks for decrease of, 306. =Cosmos, Amor de.= =D= Editor of _British Colonist_, 271; bitter opponent of Sir James Douglas, 306-307; his character, 306; his tribute to Douglas, 307-308; advocates union of colonies, 308. =Bib.=: Begg, _History of British Columbia_. =Costa, Francis.= =S= Naval officer, Upper Canada, 178. =Costigan, John=, (1835- ). Represented Victoria in New Brunswick Legislature, 1861-1866; elected to Dominion House of Commons, 1867; interested himself in questions of Roman Catholic schools of New Brunswick, and Irish home-rule. Minister of inland revenue, 1882; secretary of state, 1892; minister of marine and fisheries, 1894. =Index=: =C= Demands disallowance of New Brunswick Act abolishing separate schools, 73, 77; demands amendment of constitution to secure separate schools for New Brunswick Roman Catholics, 77. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_. =Côte Ste. Geneviève.= =WM= Slope to the north of Plains of Abraham, 186, 252. =Côteau du Lac.= =Hd= Canal at, 185. =Coton, Father.= =Ch= Jesuit provincial, accepts proposals of Récollets, 151.