Did someone say murder?
Posted on 01/29/2011 8:27:40 PM PST by Pharmboy
Tarleton was an all around bad guy. After the atrocities in our War of Independence (which did include burning people alive in their own houses, as shown in the “Tavington” character in “The Patriot”), Tarleton went back to England and became a Member of Parliament. As an MP he was an ardent SUPPORTER of the slave trade, and one of the most vicious opponents of William Wilberforce’s efforts in ending it.
“I am sure the Liberals are upset that he was given lashes and hung-after all, he couldn’t help himself.”
They would really freak out if the electric chair had been around back then. Get whipped, then sit in the hot seat???;)
Did someone say murder?
“Mass Murder” would be a great name for a diet plan.
Nothing ? Just Micajah "Big" Harpe and Wiley "Little" Harpe, who began their depredations in North Carolina around 1775, then moved to Virginia's Kentucky settlements. Plus failed militia captain and river pirate Samuel Mason, said to have scouted for both the British and the Colonial militia during the Revolution, having lived at the French settlement of Kaskaskia befor the shootin' war began, preying on Spanish traveles and farms near the Spanish settlement of San Luis, now St' Louis, Missouri. In later years Mason set up shop at a cave on the Ohio River, inviting flatboaters and other river travelers to his Liquor Vault and House of Entertainment- whereupon the visitors were killed, their gullets filled with gravel, and the bodies then dumped in a quite river backwater.
And then there's Simon Girty. Maybe the worst of them, and maybe not.
Thanks for this...I do remember those nice guys from NC now that you mention it. Well, the CT guy wanted to glom the fame...
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