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Eight hundred muskets, two field pieces, two standards, thirty-five baggage wagons, and one hundred dragoon horses, fell into the hands of the conquerors. Tarlton retreated towards the headquarters of Lord Cornwallis, then about twenty-five miles from the Cowpens. This complete victory cost the Americans less than eighty men in killed and wounded.
That's me gift to her an' Hilton, an' no other. An' a dab wid red wax it shall have, an' what more be the word o' Freddy Tarlton the lawyer?" "You're a great man," said Pierre with a touch of gentle irony, for his natural malice had no play against the huge ex-king of his own making.
So Tarlton, who has had much experience in elephant hunting, led the party off at a right angle from the elephant trail and then, turning, paralleled the trail a few hundred feet away. They had gone only a short distance when it became evident that they had passed the herd, which was hidden by the tall grass and the thickly-growing scrub trees that grew on all sides.
How noble was the fidelity of the slave based upon what gentle and affectionate relationship between himself and master probably from boyhood! Yet this is but one of a thousand such attachments, all equally pure and elevated, and maintained through not dissimilar perils. * See a biographical sketch of Tarlton Brown, of Barnwell, S.C., a soldier in the revolutionary army. Charleston, 1844, p. 8.
"Look here," said Tarlton, drawing something from his pocket wrapped in a blue handkerchief. "What's that?" Tarlton opened it. "Raw meat!" exclaimed Loveit. "How came you by it?" "Tom, the servant boy, Tom got it for me; and I'm to give him sixpence." "And is it for the dog?" "Yes; I vowed I'd be revenged on him, and after this he'll never bark again." "Never bark again! What do you mean?
Should that officer escape Tarlton, the hope was entertained that he might be intercepted by the main army. High waters delayed Cornwallis and Leslie longer than had been expected; but Tarlton overcame the same obstacles, and reached Morgan before a correspondent progress was made by the other divisions.
Rincon Hill had contributed two peeresses to England, Lee Tarlton and Tiny Montgomery, and Gwynne not only knew them both, but was the more interested, as Cecil Maundrell's sudden elevation to the earldom of Barnstaple during his active youth had served as an object-lesson to himself. Mrs.
Finally, at about eleven o'clock, Tarlton, who, strangely enough, is partly deaf, heard a sound that caused the hunting party to stop short. He heard elephants. They were undoubtedly only a short distance ahead, but as the wind was from their direction there was little likelihood that they had heard the approach of the hunters.
Tarlton, after destroying the stores at Charlottesville, proceeded down the Rivanna to the Point of Fork. The detachment commanded by Simcoe, being composed chiefly of infantry, could not move with equal celerity.
"Thank you, sir," said Tarlton, getting up and wiping his eyes. "You need not thank me," said Mr. Trueman. "Take your handkerchief go out of this room out of this house; let me never see you more." "If I had any hopes of him," said Mr. Trueman, as he shut the door after him; "if I had any hopes of him, I would have punished him; but I have none.
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