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To: Pharmboy

and a bit easy on Tarleton

men with reputations like that are seldom undeserving of them


7 posted on 01/10/2010 12:31:34 PM PST by silverleaf
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To: silverleaf

Agreed. Tarleton’s actions were even too brutal for Cornwallis. As you likely know, “Tarleton’s Quarter” meant “No quarter,” meaning no prisoners.


8 posted on 01/10/2010 12:34:58 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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