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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
h one hundred and eighty dragoons and forty mounted infantry, Tarleton rode seventy miles in twenty-four hours, destroying public stores on the Chap. XXV.} 1781. June. way; but the assembly, having received warning, had adjourned, and Jefferson had gone to the mountains on horseback. The dragoons overtook seven of the legislature. Otherwise the expedition was fruit less. Steuben had transported his magazine across the Fluvanna, and was safe, the water being too deep to be forded; but Simcoe, who was sent against him, made him believe that the whole British army was in pursuit of him; and he fled, leaving behind him some part of his stores. The two detachments rejoined the camp of Cornwallis, which extended along the James river from the Point of Fork to a little below the mouth of Byrd creek. Tarleton had suffered nothing of Jefferson's at Monticello to be injured. At Elk Hill, under the eye of Cornwallis, all the barns and fences were 25. burned; the growing crops destro