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- Whiteknoll on 2008-01-09 - Tags battles , revolutionary , thirdgrade
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British victory
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Colonel Abraham Buford
led a force of between 350 and 380 Virginian Continentals
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Lieutenant Colonel
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12 wounded
{11 horses killed
19 horses wounded}
150 wounded and paroled;
53 captured
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Anxious to capture Rutledge, Tarleton pursued with a force of roughly 230 men,
consisting of 130 Legion dragoons, 100
Mounted British Legion infantry, and a three-pounder cannon.
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the Patriots lost 113 men killed, 147 wounded and released on parole, and the 2
six pounders and 26 wagons captured
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Virginians who surrendered,
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