Posted on 10/19/2005 8:35:00 AM PDT by Valin
Thus paving the way for Big Tobacco and secondhand smoke. On the up side, it generated billions in new tax revenue for the Big Government cartel of the future.
Seriously, though, a very interesting article.
Despite how effeminate the artists painted tem, even the horses seem to be doing "A Chorus Line", I suspect these Americans would make Clint Eastwood look like Richard Simmons.
Despite how effeminate the artists painted them, even the horses seem to be doing "A Chorus Line", I suspect these Americans would make Clint Eastwood look like Richard Simmons.
"After the surrender the American and French officers entertained the British officers to dinner, other than Tarleton with whom the Americans refused to eat, due to the atrocities committed by his troops in North and South Carolina."
"Bloody Ban" Banastre Tarleton of "Tarleton's Quarter" infamy. I found it interesting that descendants of Tarleton attempted to negate historical accounts of his atrocities in North and South Carolina as untrue after the release of "The Patriot." But, three of my gggg's were there, at the Waxhaws and at Guilford Courthouse. Tarleton was everything he was reputed to be. For background, look up Colonel John Stokes sometime; at the hand of Tarleton and his troops, he lost an eye, had a hand chopped off, was run through with a saber multiple times, and lived to tell about it, going on to become North Carolina's first Federal District Court judge, prior to dying from ongoing complications of his wounds, in 1790.
Read John Alexander Thom's "Long Knife" about George Rogers Clark. Clark and Daniel Morgan almost caught Benedict Arnold and Tarleton after Arnold burned Richmond.
Good read about Daniel Morgan and Cowpens is "Hell of a Whipping".
Thanks, I'll do that.
Dead old guy bump!
Just as well for him. If he had been buried in SC, people would be lining up to defile his grave even after 200 years.
In related news, Oceania is at war with Eurasia. (Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.)
I thought Jason Isaacs made a very credible Tarleton in "The Patriot", although I thought Mel overdid his nastiness when he portrayed Tarleton as locking people in a church and burning it down. That was even too graphic for me to take, and it was obvious it never happened, because it was the Nazis who did things like that in WW II, not the civilized Brits of the 18th century.
That was a conflation of various real incidents. The real Tarleton did burn down houses with people inside; he burned churches as well, but AFAIK, none of those were occupied at the time.
The British had a special grudge against the Presbyterian churches in backcountry SC, since these were the hottest promoters of revolutionary doctrine. No surprise there.
The atrocities of "Tavington" were much more true to life than the minister in the movie church. Real Scotch-Irish Presbyterian ministers, although they did take up arms and join the militia just as depicted in the movie, they didn't "pray for the souls" of dead men. In fact, no accurate depiction of such a character would be possible or allowable in a major motion picture in our current culture.
Bottom line, it's a movie, not a history.
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