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Hace 2 días · On April 14, 1780, Colonel Banastre Tarleton decimated a detachment of Lincoln's cavalry and followed it up by practically destroying Buford's Virginia regiment near the North Carolina border. Books on The Battle of Charleston are available from Amazon.com
Hace 4 días · However, British Colonel Banastre Tarleton heard that South Carolina's Patriot Governor John Rutledge was traveling with Buford. Anxious to capture Rutledge, Tarleton pursued with a force of roughly 230 men, consisting of 130 Legion dragoons, 100 Mounted British Legion infantry, and a three-pounder cannon.
Hace 4 días · You were a member of the reinforcements consisting of 380 men, the 3rd Virginia Detachment, under the command of Colonel Abraham Buford that failed to reach the city before Charles Town fell. Cornwallis dispatched Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton to pursue and engage you.
Hace 21 horas · To suppress Patriot leaders such as Elijah Clarke, Francis Marion, and Thomas Sumter, British and Loyalist officers like Banastre Tarleton, James Wemyss, and Thomas Brown often resorted to brutal tactics during their 1780 campaigns, tactics that could be described as “fire and sword.”
Hace 3 días · Col. Banastre Tarleton, sent to capture Marion, despaired of finding the "old swamp fox", who eluded him by travelling along swamp paths. Tarleton and Marion were sharply contrasted in the popular mind.
Hace 4 días · Cornwallis sent Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton after Morgan. But the “Old Wagoner” didn’t retreat from a fight. Relying on scouting from Pickens, Morgan devised a plan to face Tarleton at a “cowpens,” where locals grazed cattle. On January 17, 1781, Morgan thoroughly defeated Tarleton.
Hace 21 horas · General Charles Cornwallis that spring dispatched a cavalry force led by Banastre Tarleton to capture Jefferson and members of the Assembly at Monticello, but Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia thwarted the British plan. Jefferson escaped to Poplar Forest, his plantation to the west.
