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The Waxhaws Massacre seen through new documents.
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I can’t get enough of Tarleton. Hated and feared in America, he was a hero to the British, and remains a cherished forebear in the UK and Canada.
I read relentlessly on the debate over Tarleton, which continues to this day, unresolved, in stark black and white terms. This fact is most apparent in the debate over Buford’s Massacre.
On 29 May 1780, Tarleton utterly defeated Abraham Buford’s detachment of several hundred American soldiers at the Waxhaws, on the border between North and South Carolina. The carnage was extreme. Tarleton claimed Buford made serious tactical errors that laid his men…
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