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Title:
PRO 30/55/023/083 - Copy Letter from Ban Tarleton to Lt General Earl Cornwallis
Date:
1780
Language:
English
Date from:
1780-05-30
Date to:
1780-05-30
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/023/083
Full Description:
Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton to Cornwallis. Wacsaw [Waxhaws]. Informs that at 3pm, after a march of 105 miles in 54 hours, with the Corps of Cavalry, the Infantry of the Legion mounted on horses and a 3 pounder, at Waxhaws near the line which divides North from the South Carolina, there was an attack with a rebel force commanded by Colonel Buford. After the summons in which terms similar to those accepted by Charlestown were offered and positively rejected, the action commenced in a wood. Tarleton was victorious and few of the enemy escaped, except for the Commanding Officer who took flight on horseback.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16277766
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_23_83