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Independence - Tarleton’s Quarter
On May 29th, 1780, on a road in the Carolina backcountry, Banastre Tarleton’s cavalry cut down hundreds of Virginia Continentals as they threw down their arms to surrender — and gave the southern war a phrase it would never lose: “Tarleton’s Quarter,” meaning no quarter at all. This is the story of what that phrase did. Four months later, on a wooded ridge called King’s Mountain, a Scottish major named Patrick Ferguson made a stand with a thousand American Loyalists against the frontier riflemen he had threatened to hang — and the over-mountain men climbed the hill shooting from tree to tree…
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