The magazine of American history with notes and queries . yonsplundering expedition to Danbury, Conn.,of April 26, 1777, and was in the affair ofi( Compo Hill. One troop subsequently participated, dismounted, in the captureof Forts Montgomery and Clinton, on the Hudson River, opposite Anthonys regiment then proceeded by sea to Philadelphia. It was in the affair at Crooked Billet, Penn., in May, 1778, and at BarrenHill Church, where Layayette extricated the American detachment in a mannerso creditable to himself. Afterward the Seventeenth was in the battle of Mon-mouth. A detachment of
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . yonsplundering expedition to Danbury, Conn.,of April 26, 1777, and was in the affair ofi( Compo Hill. One troop subsequently participated, dismounted, in the captureof Forts Montgomery and Clinton, on the Hudson River, opposite Anthonys regiment then proceeded by sea to Philadelphia. It was in the affair at Crooked Billet, Penn., in May, 1778, and at BarrenHill Church, where Layayette extricated the American detachment in a mannerso creditable to himself. Afterward the Seventeenth was in the battle of Mon-mouth. A detachment of the regiment embarked and went south in December, 1779, at-tached to Colonel Banastre Tarletons Legion, served at the siege of Charleston,and at the surrender of Major-General Benjamin Lincoln, May 12, 1780, and in theprevious cavalry affairs at Monks Corner and Lenews Ferry. Forty of the Seven-teenth were in the command of Colonel Tarleton, which obtained such an unenvi-able notoriety by its brutal conduct at the Waxhaws, May 29, 1780, in the massacre. 284 MILITARY BUTTONS of Colonel Bufords Virginia Continentals after all resistance had ceased. The ex-pression Tarletons quarters was subsequently used with great effect by theAmericans in subsequent contests in the South when making an attack. The regimental detachment of the Seventeenth in the battle of Camden,August 16, 1780, under Earl Cornwallis, and on January 6, 1781, received rein-forcements from New York. At the battle of the Cowpens, on January 17, 1781, inwhich Tarleton was totally defeated by Brigadier-General Daniel Morgan, theSeventeenth escaped capture after the action only by the rapidity of its Earl Cornwallis advanced into Virginia he ordered it to join Lord Rawdon inSouth Carolina. On June 11, 1781, Sir Henry Clinton, from head-quarters, New York, directed the immediate return of the regiment/ / /£T»7/ 11 to that station, where it served until the evacuation on November25, 1783, and was the las
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