...enforce-ment sent from New York under Leslie, could advance with thirty-five hundred fighting men, was impatient of the successes of Morgan, and resolved to intercept his retreat. On the second of Jan uary, 1781, he ordered Tarleton with his detachment to pass Broad river, and to push him to the utmost. No time, wrote he, is to be lost. Tarleton answered by promising either to destroy Morgan's ...