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... Tarleton , of whom there will be frequent mention in the course of this history , an officer of cavalry , as skilful as enterprising , had re- paired to the fertile island of Port Royal , where employing money with the disaffected and ...
... Tarleton , of whom there will be frequent mention in the course of this history , an officer of cavalry , as skilful as enterprising , had re- paired to the fertile island of Port Royal , where employing money with the disaffected and ...
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... Tarleton and Ferguson , both partisans of dis- tinguished gallantry . The Americans had established their principal cantonments on the left side of the Cooper , and being masters of Biggins Bridge , on that river , they had passed all ...
... Tarleton and Ferguson , both partisans of dis- tinguished gallantry . The Americans had established their principal cantonments on the left side of the Cooper , and being masters of Biggins Bridge , on that river , they had passed all ...
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... Tarleton having advanced with incredible celerity upon the banks of the Santee river , attacked and routed another body of republican cavalry , commanded by colonel Buford ; arms , horses , munitions , every thing fell into the power of ...
... Tarleton having advanced with incredible celerity upon the banks of the Santee river , attacked and routed another body of republican cavalry , commanded by colonel Buford ; arms , horses , munitions , every thing fell into the power of ...
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... Tarleton , nevertheless , offered to attempt the enterprise , promising to reach him . Cornwallis put under his command for this object , a strong corps of cavalry , with about a hundred light infantry mounted on horseback . His march ...
... Tarleton , nevertheless , offered to attempt the enterprise , promising to reach him . Cornwallis put under his command for this object , a strong corps of cavalry , with about a hundred light infantry mounted on horseback . His march ...
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... Tarleton's legion , which needed horses . Notwithstanding all his efforts , he had not , however , been able to assemble above two thou- sand men , of whom about fifteen hundred were veteran troops , the rest loyalists and refugees . To ...
... Tarleton's legion , which needed horses . Notwithstanding all his efforts , he had not , however , been able to assemble above two thou- sand men , of whom about fifteen hundred were veteran troops , the rest loyalists and refugees . To ...
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