A HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1780 AND 1781, IN THE SOUTHERN PROVINCES OF NORTH AMERICA

by Tarleton, Banastre, Lieut.-Col.:

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Book description: London. 1787.. vii,[1],518pp. (including errata) plus one folding map with routes marked by hand in color, and four plans (two of which are folding), with positions and troop movements marked by hand in colors. Quarto. Full antique style calf, elaborately gilt on spine and with tooled gilt pattern on boards, leather label.. Tiny wormholes on very bottom of titlepage and outer edge of map. Fourth plan trimmed closely, to the neat- line. Internally bright and clean, a very handsome copy. A standard work concerning the southern campaigns of the American Revolution. Tarleton, the commander of a Tory cavalry unit, the British Legion, served in America from May 1776 through the siege of Yorktown. He was infamous for his brutal tactics and hard-riding attacks. His narrative is one of the principal British accounts of the Revolution, notable for his use of original documents, a number of which are included as notes following the relevant chapters. The handsome maps and plans include "The Marches of Lord Cornwallis in the Southern Provinces...," showing the Carolinas, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware (with routes traced by hand in color); and plans of the siege of Charlestown, the battles of Camden and Guildford, and the siege of Yorktown. HOWES T37, "b." CHURCH 1224. CLARK I:317. SABIN 94397.

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