During the American Revolution in North Carolina, there was a very controversial event when Robert E. Lee's dad - Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee using a discretionary tactic (stratagem) removed over 300 Tories from service. John Pyle was leading his Loyalist men to locate Col Tarleton of the British Army and mistaking Lee's men for Tarleton, resulted in a bloody fight, killing many of the Tories. This has been given the name of Pyle's Defeat, Pyle's Massacre, and Pyle's Hacking Match. What makes this story, about the same old story different? Primarily it is in the way the information is provided to the reader, in a very methodical approach, as well as, providing all of the information to the reader, and not let the authors "add value" by re-writing what those who were there, had to say. Included is a research section on the Pyle and Holt families and other land/map/area research to assist in documenting possible locations of this event....More >< Less