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Tarleton,
SIR BANASTRE, military officer ; born in Liverpool,
England, August 21, 1754; purchased a commission in the British army
(dragoons). At the beginning of the Revolutionary War he came to
America, and was concerned in the capture of
General Lee late in
1776. After the evacuation of Philadelphia, 1778, he commanded a
cavalry corps called the "British Legion," and accompanied the
troops that captured Charleston in May, 1780. He was one of
Cornwallis's most active officers in the Carolinas and
Virginia, in 1780–81,
destroying Colonel Buford's regiment at Waxhaw Creek. "Tarleton's
quarter" was synonymous with wholesale butchery. He was one of the
prisoners at the surrender of Cornwallis. He published a history of
his campaign in 1780-81. He died in England, Jan. 23, 1833. |