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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. My readng has not involved a good deal of exposure to the military history of the american War, but this is a dual biography of a pair of highly interesting people. Tarleton was a "Dashing Cavalryman", not without military talent who was a formidable figurer in the clsing years of the war in the south. He served in most of the militarycampaigns in the Colonies and rose quickly by merited promotions to a lt. Colonelcy. His reputation was marred by a massacre of American milita at the battle of Waxhay Creek, which he did not directly order, but was disabled by a wound at the critical moment . Still, he was a hard-liner as regards the rebels and did not favour a mild teatment. He continued his military career after that war was was a candidate for commanding the Peninsular force in 1809. With an adequate supplyy of honors he died in 1833. Mary Robinson was an actress of considerable reputation with which he maintained a liason of over twenty years. The dual biography is a good read. I read an earlier edition as one may tell by the date. ( ) Banastre Tarleton was a colorful figure from the American Revolution, and beyond. He earned a reputation for his ruthless treatment of Patriots, including the murder of soldiers who surrendered. In the Virginia campaign he suffered a severe wound, and ended up back in England. Tarleton was a gambler and a rake, but he was young, and cut a dashing figure in English society. He later carried on an affair with the well known Mary Robinson, and became an influential member of Parliament. The Green Dragoon tells a great story well. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. - Publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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