Posted on May 29, 2018
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On this day in 1780, the treatment of Patriot prisoners by British Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his Loyalist troops leads to the coining of a phrase that comes to define British brutality for the rest of the War for Independence: “Tarleton’s Quarter.”
After the surrender of Charleston on May 12, the 3rd Virginia, commanded by Colonel Abraham Buford, was virtually the only organized Patriot formation remaining in South Carolina; British Colonel Banastre Tarleton had been given the mission to destroy any colonial resistance in the state. At Waxhaws on the North Carolina border, a cavalry charge by Tarleton’s men broke the 350 remaining Patriots under Buford. Tarleton and his Tories proceeded to shoot at the Patriots after their surrender, a move that spawned the term “Tarleton’s Quarter,” which in the eyes of the Patriots meant a brutal death at the hands of a cowardly foe. The Continentals lost 113 killed and 203 captured in the Battle of Waxhaws; British losses totaled 19 men and 31 horses killed or wounded. Although they were routed, the loss became a propaganda victory for the Continentals: wavering Carolina civilians terrified of Tarleton and their Loyalist neighbors were now prepared to rally to the Patriot cause.
Under the leadership of Thomas Sumter, the Patriot militia quickly returned the terror in kind with their own brutal raids on Carolina loyalists. Carolinians went on to fight a bloody civil war in which they killed their own with far greater efficacy than any outsider sent to assist them.
After the surrender of Charleston on May 12, the 3rd Virginia, commanded by Colonel Abraham Buford, was virtually the only organized Patriot formation remaining in South Carolina; British Colonel Banastre Tarleton had been given the mission to destroy any colonial resistance in the state. At Waxhaws on the North Carolina border, a cavalry charge by Tarleton’s men broke the 350 remaining Patriots under Buford. Tarleton and his Tories proceeded to shoot at the Patriots after their surrender, a move that spawned the term “Tarleton’s Quarter,” which in the eyes of the Patriots meant a brutal death at the hands of a cowardly foe. The Continentals lost 113 killed and 203 captured in the Battle of Waxhaws; British losses totaled 19 men and 31 horses killed or wounded. Although they were routed, the loss became a propaganda victory for the Continentals: wavering Carolina civilians terrified of Tarleton and their Loyalist neighbors were now prepared to rally to the Patriot cause.
Under the leadership of Thomas Sumter, the Patriot militia quickly returned the terror in kind with their own brutal raids on Carolina loyalists. Carolinians went on to fight a bloody civil war in which they killed their own with far greater efficacy than any outsider sent to assist them.
Tarleton gives “quarter” in South Carolina - May 29, 1780 - HISTORY.com
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Read this, trust !e, I've sent it in before, it:s the true story about that horrible Gibson film The Patriot, the single worst film ever !Ade wbout the Revolutionary War, there's another story, also, that got tangled up in that horrible flick, look up the Tomb of the !martyrs and the prison ship hulk called the Jersey, as well as the Sugar House Prison in !Manhattan, near NYPD Police Plaza, the story of the window from itmtyhat still exists, and a true monster, the one often confused with Banastre Tarleton, who was most definitely mpt a monster, the provost !arshal of the Brits in New Yprk, William Cunnjngham, trust me, I think you'll fond it a fascinating storyz one I devoted a pretty considerable period to researching, incl that Cunningham alspmturned in lists of his prisoners in the Sugar House Prison to Gen Washington, and was nearly beaten to death by the wife of a patriot with a broom, while hauling down the Union Jack as the Brits finally left New York, hysterically funny true story...also, William Cunningham was the one who actually hanged Capt Nathan Hale and destrouedmhis letyersmto home, which then led to the corresponding Americam hanging of Maj John Andrez the British aide who conspired with Maj Gen Benedict Arnold....
Read this, trust !e, I've sent it in before, it:s the true story about that horrible Gibson film The Patriot, the single worst film ever !Ade wbout the Revolutionary War, there's another story, also, that got tangled up in that horrible flick, look up the Tomb of the !martyrs and the prison ship hulk called the Jersey, as well as the Sugar House Prison in !Manhattan, near NYPD Police Plaza, the story of the window from itmtyhat still exists, and a true monster, the one often confused with Banastre Tarleton, who was most definitely mpt a monster, the provost !arshal of the Brits in New Yprk, William Cunnjngham, trust me, I think you'll fond it a fascinating storyz one I devoted a pretty considerable period to researching, incl that Cunningham alspmturned in lists of his prisoners in the Sugar House Prison to Gen Washington, and was nearly beaten to death by the wife of a patriot with a broom, while hauling down the Union Jack as the Brits finally left New York, hysterically funny true story...also, William Cunningham was the one who actually hanged Capt Nathan Hale and destrouedmhis letyersmto home, which then led to the corresponding Americam hanging of Maj John Andrez the British aide who conspired with Maj Gen Benedict Arnold....
Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795)[1] was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina and Charleston in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden.
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