[Gamecock]

As a South Carolinian, I just love this battle. To see an accurate movie that portrays the events leading up to this battle, watch Mel Gibson's The Patriot.

The 25th time I watched it I had a copy of Dr Walter Edgar's splendid "South Carolina, A History" open in my lap and read along. The history and movie are very close.

If you have to be one, be a Big Red One!

[SAMWolf]

I love "The Patriot." I have a copy.

It's unfortunate that the Souhern Campaign is pretty much ignored in the history of the Revolution in the Northern school system. Don't know if that's true in the South, but when I went to school it was a "Oh by the way, there was some fighting in the South" treatment. You'd think he whole Revolution took place in the Northern Colonies.

[rustbucket]

To see an accurate movie that portrays the events leading up to this battle, watch Mel Gibson's The Patriot.

Loved The Patriot, but it took some liberties with history. In the movie, Colonel Tavington burned people in a church. The real life Colonel Tarleton didn't burn people, as far as I know. Tarleton did order cattle, hogs, and fowl driven into a barn where corn was stored, had the doors closed, and the barn put to the torch. [see the book, "The Road to Guilford Courthouse", by John Buchanan].

Where was PETA when we needed them?

IIRC, some British troops and their Indian allies burned people alive in cabins up in Pennsylvania during the war. So, in that sense, The Patriot did capture some of what happened, though they incorrectly attributed burning people to Tarleton.

Tarleton's troops apparently did kill surrendering American troops, which gave rise to the cry of "Tarleton's quarter" among the Americans. Tarleton was also pretty ruthless against civilians.

[AmericanVictory]

It should be pointed out that Tarleton employed terrorism, as indicated in the Patriot, and was encouraged by his superiors to do so. After Cowpens it stopped.