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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
ear of the old Virginia line, commanded by Colonel Buford, arriving too late to re-enforce the garrison of Charleston, had retreated towards the north-east of the state. They were pur- 29. sued, and on the twenty-ninth of May were overtaken by Tarleton with seven hundred cavalry and mounted infantry. Buford did not surrender, yet gave no order to engage. He himself, a few who were mounted, and about a hundred of the infantry, Chap. XIV.} 1780. May. saved themselves by a precipitate flightthirteen were killed on the spot; a hundred and fifty were too badly hacked to be moved; fifty-three only could be brought into Camden as prisoners. The tidings of this massacre carried through the southern forests mingled horror and anger; but Tarleton received from Cornwallis the highest encomiums. The universal panic consequent on the capture of Charleston had suspended all resistance to the British army. The men of Beaufort, of Ninety-Six, and of Camden, had capitulated under the promis
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 15: (search)
e ruffians, and roamed through Carolina, indulging in rapine, and ready to put patriots to death as outlaws. Cornwallis himself never regarded a deserter, or any whom a court-martial sentenced to death, as subjects of mercy. A quartermaster of Tarleton's legion entered the house of Samuel Wyly near Camden, and, because he had served as a volunteer in the defence of Charleston, cut him in pieces. The presbyterians supported the cause of independence; and indeed the American revolution was but . In the following night that post was abandoned; and Lord Rawdon occupied another on the southern bank of Little Lynch's creek, unassailable from the deep muddy channel of the river, and within a day's march of Camden. Here he was joined by Tarleton with a small detachment of cavalry, who on their way had mercilessly ravaged the country on the Black river as a punishment to its patriot inhabitants, and as a terror to the dwellers on the Wateree and Santee. By a forced march up the stream,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
rd, he accepted the suggestions of Martin and Tarleton, and the like, that severity was the true mode of all people in that part of the country. Tarleton's legion had laid it waste to inspire terror; On receiving this letter, Cornwallis ordered Tarleton to march with the light infantry, the Britishthe Catawba the tidings of the defeat reached Tarleton; his party in all haste rejoined Cornwallis. ifth of November, as he de- Nov. 5. spatched Tarleton in pursuit of him. This officer and his corpshe defied an attack. But just at that moment Tarleton was recalled in haste to repel new dangers imlark and Brennan, and threatened Ninety-Six. Tarleton was therefore suddenly recalled from the pursnother followed for his support. Apprised of Tarleton's approach, Sumpter posted himself strongly on the afternoon of the twentieth of November, Tarleton drew 20. near in advance of his light infanto lieutenants, and one-third of its privates, Tarleton retreated, leaving his wounded to the mercy o
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 22: (search)
Rawdon's proclamation, and on the ravages of Tarleton. Throughout his career he was true to the prnce with thirty-five hundred fighting men, Tarleton's Campaigns, 242 and 210. was impatient of thd of January, 1781, he 1781. Jan. 2. ordered Tarleton with his detachment to pass Broad river, and time, wrote he, is to be lost. Ibid., 214. Tarleton answered by promising either to destroy Morgaed inquiry concerning the enemy's designs. Tarleton's Campaigns, 246. To this Cornwallis replied:his retreat on the other. On the fourteenth, Tarleton passed the 14. Enoree and Tyger rivers above of the camp of his enemy, informed him that Tarleton had crossed the Tyger at Musgrove's Mills wite camp which he had abandoned was occupied by Tarleton's party. On that day, Cornwallis with his areorgians at the same distance on the left. Tarleton's troops, about eleven hundred in number, havhands of the victors. The immense baggage of Tarleton's party, which had been left in the rear, was[2 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
their march from the Catawba to Virginia, was judiciously designed and vigorously executed. Tarleton, 229. Special applause was awarded to Carrington and to Otho Williams. In the camp of Greene the country, rose in such numbers that seven independent companies were formed in one day; and Tarleton with the British legion was detached across the Haw river for their protection. By the order oee and four hundred militia, and Lee formed a junction and moved against both parties. Missing Tarleton, they fell in with three hundred royalists, under Colonel Pyle, and routed them with dreadful carnage. Tarleton, who was refreshing his legion about a mile from the scene of action, hurried back to Hillsborough, and all royalists who were on their way to join the king's standard returned home.pbell, who continued firing from tree to tree till they were compelled to fly by the cavalry of Tarleton. After the Americans were encamped in safety, Greene fainted from extreme exhaustion, and, on
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 24: (search)
ain: Operations in the Chesapeake are attended with great risk, unless we are sure of a permanent superiority at sea. I cannot agree to the opinion given me by Lord Cornwallis. Clinton to Germain, 23 April, 1781. I tremble for the fatal consequences which may ensue. Ibid., 30 April, 1781. Private. But the subordinate general had from Wilmington written to the secretary, that a serious attempt upon Virginia would be the most solid plan; Cornwallis to Germain, 18 April, 1781, in Tarleton, 385. and Germain hastened to instruct Clinton: Lord Cornwallis's opinion entirely coincides with mine of the great importance of pushing the war on the side of Virginia with all the force that can be spared. Germain to Clinton, 6 June, 1781, in Commis. Clinton, Cornwallis, 53. In his march from Wilmington, Cornwallis met Chap. XXIV.} 1781. April. little resistance. At Halifax, his troops were let loose to commit enormities that were a disgrace to the name of man. Stedman, II.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
object, he sent out two detachments,—one of cavalry under Tarleton to break up the Virginia assembly, then in session at Chae hundred and eighty dragoons and forty mounted infantry, Tarleton rode seventy miles in twenty-four hours, destroying publPoint of Fork to a little below the mouth of Byrd creek. Tarleton had suffered nothing of Jefferson's at Monticello to be ice committed himself during a very difficult campaign. Tarleton, 355. The one act of rashness to which Tarleton refers wTarleton refers was not the act of Lafayette. Of his selfpossession in danger he was now called upon to give proof. On the sixth, Lafayetting the river, Cornwallis, on the eighth, wrote orders to Tarleton with mounted troops to ravage Prince Edward's and Bedford Weedon, and eight hundred marines. Once, and once only, Tarleton and his legion, who were stationed on the same side, undey at the sight, ran against them and trampled them down. Tarleton's horse was taken; its rider barely escaped. In the ni