Cornwallis and the British in the South

Cornwallis and his thousand plus men dragged themselves into petersburg, a strategic, important city located on a tributary of the james river. Cornwallis was pretty much disobeying orders, but he didn't really care. The british let them have richmond and went back to raiding,. all the while being reinforced until they numbered close to six thousand when the british general in charge suddenly dropped dead in may. Arnold found himself the senior officer in charge, a position he held for just about a week after cornwallis' death.