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Synopsis
Banastre Tarleton was born August 21, 1754 in Liverpool, England to an upper middle-class family. He studied law at Oxford and joined the military in 1775. He sailed with Lord Cornwallis where the British fleet dropped anchor in the Charleston harbor and attempted to attack the palmetto log fort near Sullivan s Island. The British were not successful at taking the fort and headed north to form ground troops. Three weeks before his 24th birthday, Tarleton was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the British Legion, a military unit composed of infantry and cavalry troops. Tarleton combined the troops to form his own green-jacketed dragoons, a group of mounted infantrymen who rode on horseback into battle and dismounted to fight. Tarleton led a powerful combat team including raids in the upstate and took an active part in battles all over the Carolinas. Swiftly moving his troops from Beaufort to Charleston to Goose Creek and Moncks Corner, the cavalry advanced northward, keeping in motion to gain intelligence of the enemy s design. Bloody Tarleton was perhaps best known for his barbaric actions in killing men even after they surrendered and begged for quarter. Tarleton s quarter, essentially meaning no quarter, became the battle cry of American riflemen.
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Robert D. Bass, born near Scranton, South Carolina was one of the nation's leading scholars of the American revolution in South Carolina. Dr. Bass was a professor at several prestigious colleges and universities across the country. He was honored by the SC Hall of Fame, the American Revolution Round Table and the American Association of State and Local History
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- PublisherSandlapper Press
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0878440194
- ISBN 13 9780878440191
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages489
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The Green Dragoon: The Lives of Banastre Tarleton and Mary Robinson
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Sandlapper Press, Columbia, SC, 1973
ISBN 10: 0878440194
ISBN 13: 9780878440191
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Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Some handling and moderate toning to book; jacket faded and foxed (now in archival mylar sleeve); old owner's name to front endpaper. Otherwise, clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound copy. Illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 80713w95
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The Green Dragoon
Seller: Fred M. Wacholz, Elkhart, IN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Book and unclipped D.J. in clear plastic cover. Cover is bright light green color with dark green title on tight as new spine and strong inner hinges. No previous owners marks discovered in the clean bright text with many photographs. D.J. has a color picture of Lt. Colonel Tarleton by L.R. Smith after a painting by S. Reynolds. Seller Inventory # 7122
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