http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banastre_Tarleton
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Tarleton was such a bastard that here in the County where the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought there were no streets named for him until some ignorant out-of-town developer in the 90’s put in a subdivision with the main drag named Tarleton Drive.