It was said that he gave no quarter to Patriots who surrended, and afterwards the Patriots called for no quarter to the Brits and referred to it as "Tarleton's Quarter."
The RevWar had its particularly bloody and cruel moments (not the least of which were the 10,000 or so deaths of Patriots in the British prison ships in Wallabout Bay in NYC).
> the character “Tavington”
The movie didn’t even use the guy’s name? So, IOW, the dolts over the Pond are complaining about nothin’? It was a movie, it wasn’t a documentary. I mean, “The Gladiator” had an actual emperor’s name, and I think the sister’s name is correct, but in reality, he executed her, not the other way around. :’) He wound up getting killed by his wife’s lover, I think while he was bathing. :’D Michael Grant writes that “Commodus had something wrong with his groin.” Heh...