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  • The Tarleton Flags

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    Bruce Baky Military Collector & Historian, vol. 58, no. 2 (Summer 2006), 118-119. Early in 1780 with almost the entire Virginia Continental Army besieged in Charleston, South Carolina, Virginia sent about 350 soldiers as reinforcements commanded by Colonel Abraham Buford. After arriving within 40 miles of Charleston, Buford learned that Charleston had surrendered. While returning…