"Bloody" Ban
Banastre "Bloody Ban" Tarleton was a young British colonel who commaned a troop of cavalry made up of American Loyalists. He received the nickname "Bloody Ban" after the battle of Camden when he set his men upon a company of American troops who had surrendered and slaughtered them almost to a man. That incident gave rise to the term "Tarleton's Quarter", which meant no quarter at all.
He often described himself, with no small amount of pride,ashaving killedmore men and "ravaged" more women than any officer in the British army.
The church burning incident you mention took place in the movie "The Patriot" but in real life it never happened. While the Brits and Hessians burned several churches in the colonies, they were always empty. And Tarleton wasn't killed in the Revolution. He survived the war, returned to England, and became a Member of Parliament.
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