Mar 3, 2017
“Slaughter was commenced before Lieutenant Colonel Tarleton could remount his horse, the one with which he led his dragoons being overturned by the volley... the loss of officers and mean was great on the part of the Americans, owing to the dragoons so effectually breaking the infantry, and to a report among the cavalry that they had lost their commanding officer, which stimulated the soldiers to a vindictive asperity not easily restrained.”
- Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton of the British Legion explaining the so-called Waxhaws Massacre in his A history of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America, page 30.