During the months of July, August, and September, he made repeated attempts against Moylan's regiment of dragoons then in Westchester, under the command of Lieutenant-colonel Anthony Walton White; whom he once surprised at Roundhill on the borders of Connecticut. But the caution and address of

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this American cavalry officer were such, that his followers, at this time, sustained no material loss. Toward the close of December, when Sir Henry Clinton moved southerly, with a considerable part of his army, for the siege of Charleston and other operations in the Carolinas, the Lieutenant-colonel of the Legion accompanied him and was placed in command of the British cavalry. Tarleton's active career at the South is too well known to all readers of American history, for any detail upon the present occasion. At Lenude's Ferry he surprised his old Westchester antagonist, Colonel White, who escaped captivity, by swimming his horse across the Santee. At the battle of Guilford Court House, the commander of the British Legion lost a considerable part of his right hand in single combat, as is generally said, with Lieutenant colonel William Washington. After the surrender of Yorktown, Tarleton returned home, and was received with enthusiasm in his native county; where in several places, the citizens took the horses from his carriage and drew him through the streets. Subsequently, he wrote and gave to the world his "History of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America." The achievements commemorated in this publication, the sight of his maimed hand, and the constant activity and heartiness of his disposition rendered him popular; particularly with his townsmen of Liverpool, who, in 1790, returned him to Parlia-ment. At the close of 1798, he was sent as Major-general to Portugal, and afterward as Lieutenant-general to Ireland, where, for some time, he was second in command.