Tag: Harry Lee

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The Escape of John Champe

In 1876 Currier and Ives issued a lithograph titled The Escape of John Champe: In the endeavour to carry out Washington’s plan to capture Arnold and to save the life of the traitors victim the Gallant Major Andre, 1780.[1] It showed a mounted Continental dragoon looking over his left shoulder as he outraced another Continental […]

by Victor J. DiSanto
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“Light Horse Harry” Lee and Pyle’s Massacre

On February 25, 1781, the Continental cavalry of Lieutenant Colonel Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee’s Legion and Brigadier Andrew Pickens’s militia encountered several hundred loyalists commanded by Colonel John Pyle at Holt’s Race Paths in North Carolina. Pretending that he was British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, and his Continentals the similarly clad troops of Tarleton’s […]

by Jim Piecuch