“ He was completely victorious in an engagement with Thomas Sumter at Fishing Creek, or Catawba Fords, but was not equally successful when he encountered the same general at Blackstock Hill in November 1780 ”

“ TARLETON, SIR BANASTRE (1754-1833) , English soldier, was the son of John Tarleton (1719-1773) , a Liverpool merchant, and was born in Liverpool on the 21st of August 1754. Educated at Oxford he entered the army, and in December 1775 he sailed as a volunteer to America with Earl, afterwards Marquess, Cornwallis, and his services during the American War of Inde- pendence in the year 1776 gained for him the position of a brigade major of cavalry. ”