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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 2 días · 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.
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Hace 4 días · July 2, 1779 at Poundridge, New York - Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, along with 360 British troops, was given a mission with two parts. His first part was to capture Maj. Ebenezer Lockwood. Loockwood was an active patriot that was assisting the local American troops.
Hace 5 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.
Starting with The Patriot, Colonel Benjamin Martin is a fictionalized version of Francis Marion who is also a composite character inspired by other Revolutionary War heroes, as is Colonel Travington a fictionalized version of real British officer Banastre Tarleton, who in real life was never killed by Marion and died in England long after the war.
Hace 5 días · Jerrilyn Greene Marston, King and Congress: The Transfer of Political Legitimacy, 1774-1776 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton university press, 1987), 3–4. Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 (New York: Norton, 1991), 281–82.
Hace 1 día · Valley Forge Winter ( CC BY-SA 2.0) by Thomas. Date: December 19, 1777 – June 19, 1778. The Winter at Valley Forge is one of the most iconic chapters of the American Revolution. From December ...
