Interesting Local Facts.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Paul

Thanks, Paul. We probably need a page for Liverpool dragoon commander and MP

General Sir Banastre Tarleton. As a lieutenant colonel in the British Army he was commander of the "British

Legion" made up of American loyalists in the southern campaigns of the American Revolution. He remains a controversial figure in the United States for his

supposed brutal tactics, most famously at the alleged massacre at Waxhaws in South Carolina. Another thing that makes him controversial is that as MP,



coming from a slave-trading family, he defended slavery in Parliament. Thus the Tarleton name came up at the time of the recent proposal rename Liverpool

streets that had connections to slavery, there being both a Tarleton Street and a Banastre Street in Liverpool. His father had been mayor of Liverpool in

the 1760's and both his father and brother engaged in the slave trade. He was also in the news because a descendent recently auctioned off some

American militia flags captured by Tarleton through Sotheby's in New York for a phenomenal

price.

Best regards

Chris George