Mrs. Tarleton laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seem warranted, though Boyd, the oldest and the runt, never got hit much.

The four Tarleton brothers ( Boyd, Tom, Brent and Stuart ) are all killed, three of them at Gettysburg.

She is infatuated with the rowdy red-headed Brent Tarleton, who is killed in the war after becoming engaged to her.

Reeves's film career began in 1939 when he was cast as Stuart Tarleton ( albeit incorrectly listed in the film's credits as Brent Tarleton ), one of Scarlett O ' Hara's suitors in Gone with the Wind.

The tales of Tarleton's atrocities were a part of standard U. S. accounts of the war and were described by Washington Irving and by Christopher Ward in his 1952 history, The War of the Revolution, where Tarleton is described as " cold-hearted, vindictive, and utterly ruthless.

Not until Anthony Scotti's 2002 book, Brutal Virtue: The Myth and Reality of Banastre Tarleton, were Tarleton's actions fully reexamined.

Screenwriters consulting American works to build the character Tavington based on Tarleton would have commonly found descriptions of him as barbaric and accounts of his name being used for recruiting and motivation during the Revolutionary War itself, even if those accounts were fiction.

of South Carolina ) writes that atrocities were many in the South Carolina backcountry: women and children slaughtered, prisoners executed without trial, whole towns put to the torch ...." In the 1990s instead of the 1780s, such as Banastre Tarleton and James Wemyss would have been indicted by the International Tribunal at the Hague as war criminals.

Paul Revere was descended from Huguenot refugees, as was Henry Laurens, who signed the Declaration of Independence for South Carolina ; Jack Jouett, who made the ride from Cuckoo Tavern to warn Thomas Jefferson and others that Tarleton and his men were on their way to arrest him for crimes against the king ; Francis Marion, and a number of other leaders of the American Revolution and later statesmen.

Along there in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Abraham Buford fled from Tarleton and was overtaken a few miles south of the North Carolina state line where the Patriot forces were defeated in a controversial struggle known as the Battle of The Waxhaws, also known as Bufords Massacre to locals.

Tarleton and the remainder of the Dragoons were sent off to the right flank to join Bose and put an end to the action from Washington.

In July 1781, Morgan briefly joined Lafayette to pursue Banastre Tarleton once more, this time in Virginia, but they were unsuccessful.

It was a minor role but he and Fred Crane, both in brightly dyed red hair as " the Tarleton Twins ," were in the film's opening scenes.

Tarleton, some of whose horses were so tired out from the pursuit that he was unable to bring his field artillery into range, established a command post on a nearby hill, and organized his forces for the attack.

Tarleton claimed that after the battle ended, the wounded of both sides were treated " with equal humanity " and that the British provided " every possible convenience ".

The Ribble Link Trust was set up in 1984, in order to promote the idea, and a series of annual cruises were held, starting at Tarleton on the Leeds and Liverpool Rufford Branch, passing down the River Douglas, up the River Ribble and ending at Preston Dock.

Their overalls were grey with a red stripe and on their heads they wore the distinctive " Tarleton " helmets.

Tarleton caught up with them on May 29, 1780 near the present town of Lancaster, and Americans were told to surrender, but refused.

In the Battle of Waxhaws the Americans were routed by Tarleton and his men, who suffered minimal casualties.

The manor of Tarleton was part of the Montbegon or Hornby fee and divided into two moieties: two ploughlands were granted to John Malherbe and the remainder to the Banastres of Bretherton.

“ We honor the rough soldier Ferguson ,” Irving wrote “ for the fiat of instant death with which he would have requited the most infamous and dastardly outrage that brutalizes warfare .” Tarleton, on the other hand, reveled in his own misconduct and that of his soldiers “ for afterwards, in England, he had the effrontery to boast, in the presence of a lady of respectability, that he had killed more men and ravished more women than any man in America .” Irving himself would go on to be reintroduced to a new generation of readers through the late nineteenth century writings of Lyman Draper.

It was generally observed of Tarleton and his corps, that they not only exercised more acts of cruelty than any one in the British army, but also carried further the spirit of depredation.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

Tarleton in his report to Cornwallis described the battle as a " slaughter ", but claimed that his men, thinking their commander dead, engaged in " a vindictive asperity not easily restrained " after he was unhorsed.

According to Cullie Tarleton, who ran the station at that time, putting the Tar Heels on WBT was largely the idea of longtime coach Dean Smith, who wanted to tell recruits from New England that their parents would be able to listen to the games.

His mother, Matilda (" Tillie ") Valandra ( Matilda Kent Tarleton ), was a school teacher ; his father, Byron John Barker, was the foreman on the electrical high line through the state of Washington.

He blames the wealthy class in particular for the plight of the ordinary worker, and he blames John Tarleton in particular for a romantic dalliance that he once had with Gunner's mother.

* 1754 – Banastre Tarleton, English soldier and politician ( d. 1833 )

By now he had taken over the Earl of Warwick's playing company, which may have included the famous comedian, Richard Tarleton.

* Beatrice Tarleton: was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes and eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in Georgia.

* Tarleton Girls: Hetty, Camilla, ' Randa and Betsy: The stunning Tarleton girls have varying shades of red hair.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.

In early June 1781, Cornwallis dispatched a 250-man cavalry force commanded by Banastre Tarleton on a secret expedition to capture Governor Jefferson and members of the Assembly at Monticello but Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia, thwarted the British plan by warning them.

* January 16 – Banastre Tarleton, British general and politician ( b. 1754 )

* May 29 – American Revolutionary War: Loyalist forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton kill surrendering American soldiers in the Waxhaw Massacre.

Later that year he was captured by British cavalry under Banastre Tarleton and held as a prisoner until exchanged in 1778.

Among the members of the British patrol was Banastre Tarleton.

The character is loosely based on Banastre Tarleton.

After the release of The Patriot, several British voices criticized the movie for its depiction of the movie's villain Tavington and defended the historical character of Banastre Tarleton.

" there is no evidence that Tarleton, called ' Bloody Ban ' or ' The Butcher ' in rebel pamphlets, ever broke the rules of war and certainly did not ever shoot a child in cold blood.

Although Tarleton gained the reputation among Americans as a butcher for his involvement in the Waxhaw massacre in South Carolina, he was a hero in Liverpool, England.

Liverpool City Council, led by Mayor Edwin Clein, called for a public apology for what they viewed as the film ’ s " character assassination " of Tarleton.