Simcoe. Turn. Andrew Jackson.

[Darto]

Simcoe (on the left) on TV series Turn.

Interesting tale how Simcoe, through Bulldog Tarlton, created an enemy of the British named Andrew Jackson.

 

[64Springer]

.....and.....

 

[Darto]

I read an old gun magazine about how Tarlton came to America during the Revolutionary War with a load of his breach loading rifles. It was about Italian reproductions of the Tarlton Rifle. I think you rotated the trigger guard and a hole appeared that you dropped the ball into followed by power. The ball was large enough not to roll out the front. His group did a lot of damage in the South during the war and he became known as Bulldog Tarlton.

 

[Darto]

I thought it was interesting how Tarlton's treatment of 11 year old Andrew Jackson came back later to discomfort the British.

 

[64Springer]

I read an old gun magazine about how Tarlton came to America during the Revolutionary War with a load of his breach loading rifles. It was about Italian reproductions of the Tarlton Rifle. I think you rotated the trigger guard and a hole appeared that you dropped the ball into followed by power. The ball was large enough not to roll out the front. His group did a lot of damage in the South during the war and he became known as Bulldog Tarlton.

I thought it was Bloody Banister Tarlton.

 

[Kyle Kalasnik]

I thought it was Bloody Banister Tarlton.

I believe you are correct.

Patrick Ferguson was “Bulldog”, if I’m not mistaken.

 

[Darto]

Yes Bulldog Ferguson, and Ferguson had the breach load rifle. I was sorta confused...

Despite being the villain in the period of Turn, Simcoe later went on to be a sort of hero in Canada. For his humanitarian endeavors, so to speak. Almost a miraculous change of personality, so they say.