I remember seeing the famous painting of Cornwell's action many years ago and marveled then at the story. Seeing it told again here with added details is as stirring now as it was to see the image back then.
There's a rather nice web page about him here:
http://www.scouting.milestones.btint...k/cornwell.htm
The painting I'm talking about appears near the bottom of the page and shows Cornwell, looking like the child he still was, at the ready as gunsmoke and cordite swirl around him.
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"Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings."
- Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
