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1 giorno fa · Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833) was a British military officer and politician, most famous for his role in the southern campaigns of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). In command of an elite unit of Loyalists called the British Legion, Tarleton gained a reputation for aggression and cruelty, with Patriots even coining the phrase ...
3 giorni fa · Henry Banastre of Bank, who died in 1526, held his messuages and land in Tarleton of the heir of Roger Montbegon by a rent of 8s. yearly, and a like service is that recorded in later inquisitions. The 'manor of Tarleton' is named in 1555.
3 giorni fa · However, British Colonel Banastre Tarleton heard that South Carolina's Patriot Governor John Rutledge was traveling with Buford. Anxious to capture Rutledge, Tarleton pursued with a force of roughly 230 men, consisting of 130 Legion dragoons, 100 Mounted British Legion infantry, and a three-pounder cannon.
4 giorni fa · Henry Banastre died in 1526 seised of a capital messuage called the Bank and other messuages and lands in Bretherton; also lands in Tarleton, Becconsall and Hesketh. The Bank estate was said to be held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster by the twentieth part of a knight's fee and a rent of 4½ d . yearly.
4 giorni fa · After the battle of Cowpens, the surviving Legion Infantry not taken prisoner, were either transferred to the cavalry or sent to Charlestown, where they sat out the rest of the war. Only the Legion Cavalry stayed with Tarleton until the end at Yorktown. Analysis of the Legion Muster Rolls.
1 giorno fa · General Charles Cornwallis that spring dispatched a cavalry force led by Banastre Tarleton to capture Jefferson and members of the Assembly at Monticello, but Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia thwarted the British plan. Jefferson escaped to Poplar Forest, his plantation to the west.
3 giorni fa · The witnesses include Sir Robert Banastre, Sir Henry de Lea (d. 1288), Sir William de la Mare, Sir Richard le Boteler and others, and may be dated about 1260.
