From that day, "Tarleton's Quarters", implying the merciless cutting down of the suppliant, grew into a proverbial phrase, which, in the hour of victory, seemed to embitter the hostility with which the American strove to avenge his slaughtered comrades.
* Generally given as Buford in other documents.

Simms also states "the Warsaw settlements" in the original text, but Waxhaw is correct.

According to local tradition, the mother of Andrew Jackson, the future president, was one of those who aided the survivors.

Jackson himself later served, at the age of 13, in Davie's cavalry, as a messenger, and was the only member of his family to survive the war.
-- A.

L., 1996 .-- The defeat of Beaufort, with the only regular force remaining in the State, following so close upon the fall of Charleston, paralyzed the hopes of the patriots.