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Tarleton died in January 1833, at Leintwardine, Herefordshire .< ref >
The other monuments are those of Father William Tarleton, O. S. B., who died in 1816 of typhus fever, caught while consoling the sick ; Dr. James Appleton, O. S. B., D. D., who died a martyr of charity, in 1847 ; Father John Robinson, O. S. B, who died, deeply mourned by his flock, in 1837, and Father Vincent Glover, O. S. B, who died in 1840, aged 49.
Ablett died on 1 January 2012, following a 16-month battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, at his home in Tarleton, Lancashire.

Tarleton and on
* 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.
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.
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.
The character is loosely based on Banastre Tarleton.
Rodat also indicated that the fictional Colonel William Tavington is " loosely based on Colonel Banastre Tarleton, who was particularly known for his brutal acts "
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.
* Government info on Southern Campaign, Banastre Tarleton and Benjamin Martin
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.
On October 17 – 19, 2008, some 2, 000 Revolutionary War reenactors ( www. battleofthehook. com ) will converge on Warner Hall in Gloucester County to commemorate the defeat of Banastre Tarleton and his British Legion by the colorful hussars of the Duc de Lauzun's Legion and Mercer's Select Battalian of Virginia Militia Grenadiers.
Tarleton School, a private elementary school, is located on Waterloo Avenue.
The river rises on Winter Hill on the West Pennine Moors, and flows for through several towns and onto the Ribble estuary past Tarleton, the last or so being tidal.
" Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton " by Sir Joshua ReynoldsHe met Gates at Hillsborough, and was given command of the light infantry corps on Oct. 2.
On March 26, his first encounter with the British Legion under command of Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, resulted in a minor victory near Rantowle's Bridge on the Stono River in South Carolina.
Afterward on the Ashley River during the fight at Rutledge ’ s Plantation on March 26, 1780, Lt. Col. Washington again bested a detachment of Tarleton ’ s dragoons and infantry.
Tarleton, however, attacked the encampment of General Isaac Huger at Monck ’ s Corner on the night of April 14, 1780, and routed the Continentals, including the 3rd Light Dragoons, which lost 15 dead, 17 wounded, and 100 dragoons captured, along with 83 horses.
These successes led to Tarleton being ordered to chase down Morgan's " flying corps ", leading to the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781.
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 was born on 6 October 1758 at Chester in the county of Cheshire in England, a son of Fisher Tench, a dancing master who ran a boarding school in the town and Margaritta Tarleton of the Liverpool Tarletons.
When Lee strayed too far from his army on December 12, his exposed position was betrayed by Loyalists, and a British company led by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton surrounded the inn where he was staying and took him prisoner.
Mary Robinson, who now lived separately from her philandering husband, went on to have several love affairs, most notably with Banastre Tarleton, a soldier who had recently distinguished himself fighting in the American War of Independence.
He went on to John Tarleton Agricultural College in Stephenville, Texas.
These include the Brittania Inn at corner of Springfield Road and Oxford Road which was saved from demolition in the 1970s, The Stanley in Oxford Road, The Royal Butterfly in Huffling Lane, The Rifle Volunteer on the corner of Tarleton Street and Smalley Street and the historic Woodman Inn in Todmorden Road.

Tarleton and January
* January 16 – Banastre Tarleton, British general and politician ( b. 1754 )
General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB ( 21 August 1754 – 15 January 1833 ) was a British soldier and politician.
In January 1781, the Legion was part of the force under Tarleton defeated by Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens.
They sustained heavy losses in the Battle of Cowpens in January 1781 after being ordered by Tarleton to charge a formation of American militia.

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

Tarleton and England
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.
Late nineteenth century schools included Burnley Wood School located between Glebe Street and Branch Road ; Todmorden Road Council Schools ; and St. Stephen's Church of England School in St. Stephen's Street located between Oxford Road and Tarleton Street.
“ 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.
This post, however, was surrendered to the Americans with Yorktown, Virginia in October 1781 and Tarleton returned to England on parole.
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.
Tarleton is a village and civil parish situated in the Lancashire mosslands north east of Southport, and to the south west of Preston, in North West England.

Tarleton and at
* 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.
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.
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.
Harold Macmillan was born at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan ( 1853 – 1936 ), publisher, and Helen ( Nellie ) Artie Tarleton Belles ( 1856 – 1937 ), artist and socialite, from Spencer, Indiana in the United States.
The Rufford Branch of the canal joins the river at Tarleton.
He led his militia unit in the Yorktown campaign, where his brigade successfully repelled the feared and infamous unit of Colonel Banastre Tarleton, thus closing the one means of British escape at Gloucester Point.
The four Tarleton brothers ( Boyd, Tom, Brent and Stuart ) are all killed, three of them at Gettysburg.
North of Ormskirk the A59 passes through Burscough and Rufford, before reaching the traffic light controlled crossroads at Tarleton, where the A565 joins.
Tarleton was educated at the Middle Temple, London and went up to University College, Oxford University in 1771 and prepared for a career as a lawyer.
This representation of Tarleton is contrary to his nature as described by his conduct at Monticello of which Thomas Jefferson later noted,
As Cornwallis shifted his communications to the Chesapeake and abandoned the Carolinas for Virginia, the British Legion cavalry under Tarleton raided ahead of the British army, nearly capturing Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia General Assembly at Charlottesville.
After high school, he enrolled for one semester at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, followed by a semester at Tarleton College in Stephenville, Texas.
He went on to study at John Tarleton Agricultural College in Stepenville and in 1940 transferred to the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy ( now named the University of Texas at El Paso ), receiving a B. A.
On his way to Fort Ninety-Six, Morgan was attacked by Banastre Tarleton and gained a decisive victory over him at the Battle of Cowpens.

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