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Tarleton was raised in Liverpool, England, where
his father was mayor. He studied at Oxford University and the
Middle Temple of the Inns of Court, a school for preparing lawyers
in London. Tarleton sailed to America in 1776 with Lord
Cornwallis, commander of the British forces in the colonies.
Tarleton took part in the battle for New York City and the attack
on Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina. While serving
in a unit of dragoons in 1776, he captured General Charles Lee,
second-in-command of the colonial Continental Army. Tarleton
was promoted to commandant of the British Legion, a mixed force
of cavalry, which became famous as Tarleton's Green Horse because
of the color of their uniforms. |
