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11 de jun. de 2018 · Banastre Tarleton was the son of a wealthy Liverpool merchant, a sometime mayor of the city. After attending Oxford, young Tarleton entered the King's Dragoon Guards in 1775. He volunteered for service in the American colonies and gained his first military experience in Henry Clinton's unsuccessful venture against Charleston, S.C., in June 1776.
Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton. Banastre Tarleton was born to upper middle-class parents in Liverpool, England, on August 21, 1754. At the University College, Oxford, he studied toward a law degree but was better known for his athletic abilities, participating in cricket, boxing, riding, and tennis. He was small physically, yet strong and ...
17 de dic. de 2018 · Banastre Tarleton’s notoriety even made its way onto the big screen in Mel Gibson’s movie The Patriot in 2000. In The Patriot, the main protagonist, a British dragoon commander named Colonel William Tavington, murders Gibson’s young son, torches a plantation housing a young widow and her children, rounds up an entire town, locks them in a church, and burns the church to the ground, among ...
15 de abr. de 2024 · The Battle of Waxhaws (29 May 1780) was a small engagement during the southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) that nevertheless had a significant psychological impact on the Patriots. During the battle, Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his infamous British Legion allegedly slaughtered Patriot soldiers who were trying to ...
Sir Banastre Tarleton, English soldier, was the son of John Tarleton (1719 – 73), a Liverpool merchant, and was born in Liverpool in 1754. Educated at Oxford, he entered the army and in December 1775 sailed as a volunteer to America with Earl (Charles) Cornwallis .
Clinton ordered Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton into the countryside on April 12, 1780, to cut off these lines at Monck’s Corner, located in current day Berkeley-county, South Carolina, along with any escape routes outside the city using the Cooper River.
The British high command quickly recognized this new development and sent their star performer, Banastre Tarleton, to deal with it. Since landing outside Charleston, Tarleton had gained prominence through a series of bold, headlong charges and won victories at Monk’s Corner, Lenud’s Ferry, Fishing Creek, and Waxhaws, including a brilliant flanking charge at the Battle of Camden on August ...
