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  • S.C. hopes to buy Revolutionary War flags

    03/13/2006 6:15:57 PM PST · by Pharmboy · 29 replies · 918+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Mar. 13, 2006 | anon
    CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The heirs of the British general known for brutal attacks in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War are auctioning flags won in key battles. South Carolina is mounting an effort to bring home flags British Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton took from a bloody battlefield five miles south of the state line in South Carolina. It's a place that some say became an emotional turning point that fixed American hearts against the British enemy. Accounts of what happened on May 29, 1780, vary, but the commonly held view is that American Col. Abraham Buford thought his 350 Virginia...