Callahan, Charles Hilliard, 1858-1944 · Washington : National Capital Press · leaf 197
andwas buried in old Blanford graveyard, the proudest man, Jeffersonsaid, of the proudest nation on earth. Comwallis arrived in May and took command of all the forces inVirginia, amounting to eight or ten thousand men, among whom wasthe celebrated Colonel Tarleton with his flying battalions of… … wo w oo WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION. 121 English forces and, falling back towards the Rappahannock River,obstinately declined being brought to an engagement. In the meantime Tarletons dragoons proved a scourge to Vir-ginia, as they had been to the Carolinas. They went, says aprominent writer, with…
