Post by cwbuff on Oct 17, 2007 9:07:41 GMT -8
Here is a very interesting article. I definitily plan on seeing the display.
content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=134846&ran=13924
"Four Revolutionary War battle flags claimed as trophies by the British are heading back to Virginia.
Colonial Williamsburg officials announced Tuesday that the flags - a Connecticut cavalry flag and three that flew over the 3rd Virginia Detachment - will go on view Dec. 22 through Jan. 9, 2009, in the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
The display is a coup. The flags were owned by the descendants of a British officer for more than two centuries, then sold in a New York City auction last year to an anonymous bidder for nearly $17.4 million. After the sale, it was unclear whether the public would get to see them again."
"All four flags were initially captured by Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton or his troops and whisked to England, where they remained in his family until they were sold last year by his great-great-great-great-nephew, Capt. Christopher Tarleton Fagan.
The Virginia flags flew above the 3rd Virginia Detachment - led by Col. Abraham Buford - on May 29, 1780, at the Battle of the Waxhaws in South Carolina.
The Connecticut cavalry regiment flag was captured by Tarleton a year earlier during an engagement at Bedford/Pound Ridge, N.Y.
Goldstein thinks the Virginia flags were sent back to England before Tarleton surrendered at Yorktown.
"Probably the last time they were in Virginia, they were heading south with Buford's column on their way to their capture," he said."
content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=134846&ran=13924
"Four Revolutionary War battle flags claimed as trophies by the British are heading back to Virginia.
Colonial Williamsburg officials announced Tuesday that the flags - a Connecticut cavalry flag and three that flew over the 3rd Virginia Detachment - will go on view Dec. 22 through Jan. 9, 2009, in the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
The display is a coup. The flags were owned by the descendants of a British officer for more than two centuries, then sold in a New York City auction last year to an anonymous bidder for nearly $17.4 million. After the sale, it was unclear whether the public would get to see them again."
"All four flags were initially captured by Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton or his troops and whisked to England, where they remained in his family until they were sold last year by his great-great-great-great-nephew, Capt. Christopher Tarleton Fagan.
The Virginia flags flew above the 3rd Virginia Detachment - led by Col. Abraham Buford - on May 29, 1780, at the Battle of the Waxhaws in South Carolina.
The Connecticut cavalry regiment flag was captured by Tarleton a year earlier during an engagement at Bedford/Pound Ridge, N.Y.
Goldstein thinks the Virginia flags were sent back to England before Tarleton surrendered at Yorktown.
"Probably the last time they were in Virginia, they were heading south with Buford's column on their way to their capture," he said."
