America's first arch-villain enemy

Long before there was Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein, there was Banastre Tarleton. At the Battle of Waxhaw Creek in 1780 during the Revolutionary War, Tarleton's soldier's ignored the white flag of surrender and massacred the American troops, killing 113 and severely wounding 150. In his operations in South Carolina, Tarleton alienated colonists by arbitrary confiscations of cattle and food stocks. When Tarleton was involved in the surrender at Yorktown, special arrangements had to be made to protect him because of his unsavory reputation.