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Hace 2 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 1 día · Late in the evening, Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, known as “Bloody Tarleton,” and 250 mounted British soldiers reined up near Cuckoo Tavern. This was June 3, 1781, six years after Paul Revere’s ride and during the American Revolution. A tavern patron and patriot, Captain John “Jack” Jouett, mingled with the troops and found ...
Hace 6 días · British Legion: 157/180 cavalry, 106/126 infantry, Lieut. Col. Banastre Tarleton (The British Legion infantry, under Capt. Patrick Stewart, formed part of Rawdon’s Division, while the cavalry under Tarleton was deployed near the Reserve with discretion to act as opportunity arose)
Hace 1 día · He dispatched Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, head of the Loyalist British Legion, on horseback with 250 men to capture Jefferson and the Assembly. During the evening of June 3rd, Jack Jouett observed the passing troops in the small town of Cuckoo, and correctly surmised that they were headed to Charlottesville.
Hace 2 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 1 día · 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.
Hace 1 día · 29 May 1780, Waxhaw’s Creek, NC. A cavalry charge by Banastre Tarleton’s Loyalists broke a force of 350 men of Col Buford’s 3rd VA Infantry Regt. Tarleton’s Tories proceeded to shoot them after their surrender, spawning the term “Tarleton’s Quarter.” image; 30 May 1780 New Bridge NJ.
