A Devil of a Whipping

Question 1

Colonel Banastre Tarleton

Answer 1

Colonel Banastre Tarleton

His reputation for brutality was established, and his name became a by-word for terror and no quarter throughout the south.

On 17 January 1781, Tarleton’s forces were virtually destroyed by American Brigadier General Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens. Tarleton and about 200 men escaped the battlefield.

Question 2

Revolutionary Commander at Cowpens.

Answer 2

Daniel Morgan was the commanding officer of his “Flying Army.””

Question 3

Number of American soldiers at Battle of Cowpens.

Answer 3

More than 950

Question 4

Date of the Battle of Cowpens

Answer 4

17 January 1781

Question 5

Date of British surrender at Yorktown

Answer 5

19 October 1781

Almost 9 months to the day after the battle of Cowpens.

Question 6

General Cornwallis

Answer 6

Succeeded Henry Clinton as commander of British forces. He served from 1776 till 1778. He was fearless in battle and was a forceful leader. Surrendered to Revolutionary forces at Valley Forge 19 October 1781.

Question 7

The British officer who threatened to lay waste their country, and was defeated at the battle of Kings Mountain.

Answer 7

Lieutenant colonel Patrick Ferguson. 

Question 8

The Battle of the Waxhaw

Answer 8

The Battle of Waxhaws (also known as the Waxhaws Massacre and Buford’s Massacre) was a military engagement which took place on May 29, 1780 during the American Revolutionary War between a Patriot force led by Abraham Buford and a British force led by Banastre Tarleton near Lancaster, South Carolina. Buford’s men consisted of Continental Army soldiers, while Tarleton’s force was mostly made up of Loyalist troops. After the two forces sighted each other, Buford rejected an initial demand to surrender. Patriots subsequently coined the term “Tarleton’s quarter” to refer to the practise of giving no quarter during battles, though he had not ordered his men to attack the surrendering Patriots. In subsequent engagement in the Carolinas, it became rare for either side to take significant prisoners. The battle became the subject of an intensive propaganda campaign by Patriots to bolster recruitment and incite resentment against the British.