Tomb of Lord Cornwallis
Ghazipur, India
River Bank Colony, Mishra Bazar, Fullanpur, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh 233001, India
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VISITOR INFORMATION
NO TICKET REQUIRED
This is a remote riverside tomb with no staff. Entry is currently free.
Free outdoor monument; generally accessible during daylight hours. No advance ticket is required.
Peak visitation season unconfirmed. No reliable site-specific monthly attendance pattern was established.
November-February for the Cornwallis tomb in Ghazipur, when regional conditions are cooler than late spring and outside the summer monsoon. Confirm site hours and allow for winter fog on the journey.
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About Tomb of Lord Cornwallis
This tomb marks the burial place of Charles Cornwallis, the British general who led major campaigns in the South and surrendered his army at Yorktown in October 1781. Cornwallis died in Ghazipur, India, in 1805 after later imperial service. Although the tomb is far from the American battlefields, it commemorates the commander whose defeat effectively ended major fighting in the Revolution.
Cornwallis’s monumental tomb remains at Ghazipur. The domed memorial and enclosed grounds remain the principal physical commemoration of his burial in India.
History happened here at Tomb of Lord Cornwallis
This tomb marks the burial place of Charles Cornwallis, the British general who led major campaigns in the South and surrendered his army at Yorktown in October 1781. Cornwallis died in Ghazipur, India, in 1805 after later imperial service.
Although the tomb is far from the American battlefields, it commemorates the commander whose defeat effectively ended major fighting in the Revolution.
PEOPLE WHO DIED HERE
PEOPLE AT REST HERE
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
EXTERNAL LINKS
Ghazipur district administration, places of interest: https://ghazipur.nic.in/places-of-interest/
National Monuments Authority, protected monument: https://www.nma.gov.in/showfile.php?lang=1&level=2&lid=1663&ls_id=1363&nma_type=0
National Monuments Authority, monument boundary map: https://nma.gov.in/showfile.php?lang=1&level=2&lid=1300&ls_id=1038&nma_type=0
Archaeological Survey of India, protected monuments: https://asi.nic.in/pdf/CPM_List.pdf
National Galleries of Scotland, historic image: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/10555/ghazipur-tomb-lord-cornwallis-viceroy-india