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Banastre Tarleton and his ruthless British Legion. History loves a villain, and Banastre Tarleton wears that mantle with great élan, at least to Americans. The British, however, remember him as the darling of the Revolutionary War—daring, precocious and generally victorious. Both reputations are well deserved, if somewhat inflated. Tarleton was a soldier who fought hard …
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