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SCAR is pleased to announce that we will publish Jim Piecuch's new book Battle of the Waxhaws: Tarleton, Buford and the Myth of Massacre. This new book explores this one-sided victory of British Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton over Col. Abraham Buford on May 29, 1780. Buford's Defeat solidified Tarleton's reputation as "the butcher" and "bloody Ban" in Patriots' minds and Tarleton as a British war hero from their point of view. As a revisionist historian, Piecuch studies the source documents and challenges the 227 year old assumptions of Tarleton's intent, complicity and guilt in the slaughter of the Virginia Continentals that May afternoon in South Carolina. He also looks at Col. Buford's tactical command decisions and their contributions to his defeat.

Graphics artist and period scholar Rob McCaskill has added his skills to make an informative book more pleasing to the eye.

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Last updated June 26, 2008

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