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as Marion, and
Nielsen was also one of the singers of the theme song. The series depicted Mary Videau (who in the series has no familial relationship with Marion) secretly acting as an informant for Marion on British movements and Marion's nephew Gabriel Marion being killed by Loyalists, causing
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October 25, 1780; Georgetown (four attacks) between October 1780 and May 1781; Fort Watson on April 23, 1781; Fort Motte on May 12, 1781; Quinby Bridge on July 17, 1781; Parker's Ferry on August 13, 1781; Eutaw Springs on September 8, 1781; and Wadboo Plantation on August 29, 1782. Cornwallis
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These enslaved people, together with the ten field hands, went back with him to Pond Bluff. After the war, Marion borrowed money to purchase more enslaved people for his plantation. At the age of 54, Marion married his 49-year old cousin, Mary Esther Videau. Marion served several terms in the
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as number one of its "Top 10 historically misleading films" in 2011. In the film, Martin describes violence that he committed in the French and Indian War. Around the time of the film's release, comments in the
British press challenged the American notion of Marion as a hero. In the
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was sent to capture or kill Marion in
November 1780. After pursuing Marion's troops for over 26 miles through a swamp, Tarleton supposedly said "as for this old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him." Based on this tale, Marion's supporters began to call him "the Swamp Fox".
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described Marion as "very active in the persecution of the
Cherokee Indians and not at all the sort of chap who should be celebrated as a hero. The truth is that people like Marion committed atrocities as bad, if not worse, than those perpetrated by the British." According to
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Gabriel's plantation, all of whom had been singled out for favorable treatment in Marion's prewar will: overseer June and his wife, Chloe; their daughter Phoebe (sister of Buddy, Marion's enslaved manservant); and her daughter Peggy.
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After Marion returned to Pond Bluff, he discovered it had been destroyed during the war. Of the roughly 200 people who had been enslaved on it before the war, most of them fled the plantation, with some joining the
British as Clinton had issued the
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Francis Marion was a man of his times: he owned slaves, and he fought in a brutal campaign against the
Cherokee Indians. While not noble by today's standards, Marion's experience in the French and Indian War prepared him for more admirable
817:, a historical romance set against the background of the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War, Marion appears and interacts with the fictional characters. In the book, he is depicted as decisive, enterprising, and valiant.
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from Charleston, and there was reportedly a conspiracy to turn him over to the British. But in June of that year, he put down a Loyalist rebellion on the banks of the Pee Dee River. In August, Marion left his unit and returned to his
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which sank on his first voyage; the crew escaped on a lifeboat but had to spend one week at sea before reaching land. In the following years, Marion managed the family's plantation, including overseeing the activities of the family's
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The British made repeated efforts to neutralize Marion's force, but Marion's intelligence gathering was excellent and that of the British was poor, due to the overwhelming Patriot presence in the Williamsburg area. Colonel
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observed, "Colonel Marion had so wrought the minds of the people, partly by the terror of his threats and cruelty of his punishments, and partly by the promise of plunder, that there was scarcely an inhabitant between the
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working or fighting alongside the British. He received an order from Rutledge to execute all Black people suspected of carrying provisions or gathering intelligence for the British "agreeable to the laws of this State".
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A state-erected information sign at Marion's gravesite on the former Belle Isle Plantation shows that he was engaged in twelve major battles and skirmishes in a two-year period: Black Mingo Creek on September 28, 1780;
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and was reintroduced in January 2007. The Brigadier General Francis Marion Memorial Act of 2007 passed the House of Representatives in March 2007, and the Senate in April 2008. The bill was packaged into the omnibus
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Gray, Jefferson (Autumn 2011). "Up from the swamp: Francis Marion turned South Carolina's Low Country into a quagmire for the British and became one of history's greatest guerrilla leaders".
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Was Francis Marion a slave owner? Was he a determined and dangerous warrior? Did he commit acts in an 18th-century war that we would consider atrocious in the current world of peace and
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offering Patriot enslaved people freedom. Marion's enslaved people who had joined the British were evacuated from Charleston at the end of the war and at least one settled in
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were paid $ 6.67 a month. ) He died on his plantation in 1795, at the age of 63, and was buried at Belle Isle Plantation Cemetery in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
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on the British forces opposing them. He thus missed the battle, which resulted in a British victory. Marion showed himself to be a singularly able leader of
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was selected, it was not built before authorization expired in 2018. Some local residents opposed a monument to a slaveowner. The U.S. Navy was home to the
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is a historic hotel in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Within the hotel is a restaurant called the Swamp Fox. The municipalities of Marion in
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and left his troops to take up his seat. During his absence, Marion's men grew disheartened, particularly after a British
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in an accident and had left the city to recuperate. Clinton led part of the force that had captured Charleston back to
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for youth 14 to 20 years of age. In 1994, Marion was posthumously inducted into the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame.
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television series, "The Swamp Fox", which was broadcast on October 25, 1955. Walt Disney Productions produced
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live up to the harsh standards they set." According to Crawford, the biographies by historians
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that Marion's partisans were "a ragged band of both black and white volunteers."
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Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670–1837
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Founding Fighter: The Battlefield Leaders Who Made American Independence
1618:"Biography of Francis Marion the "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolution"
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colonial village of Hilltown but were driven out by Marion at the
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is a part), is named for the general, as are Marion Counties in
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The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
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Traditions of the Swamp Fox: William W. Boddie's Francis Marion
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The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
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and on June 21, 1775, he was commissioned as an officer in the
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A Sober Desire for History: William Gilmore Simms as Historian
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1826:"Top 10 Historically Misleading Films, 1. The Patriot, 2000"
2016:"NPS PEPC – Public Scoping: Marion Memorial-Site Selection"
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General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal
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took command in the South, Marion and Lieutenant Colonel
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entered South Carolina in the early spring of 1780 and
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Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation
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The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States
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http://www.nps.gov/cahi/historyculture/cahi_marion.htm
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approved a monument to Francis Marion, to be built in
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People of South Carolina in the French and Indian War
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That's what made him a hero, 200 years ago and today.
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and based on the memoirs of South Carolinian soldier
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South Carolina militiamen in the American Revolution
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People of South Carolina in the American Revolution
305:Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War
2199:The Online Books Page: Texts about Francis Marion
2857:Members of the United States Army Special Forces
2822:Huguenot participants in the American Revolution
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1787:M. L. Weems: The Life of General Francis Marion
1558:. New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 155.
1440:Southern and Western Monthly Magazine and Review
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1961:. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 200.
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840:Marion to seek revenge on those responsible.
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1978:. Worldwide Army Rangers, Inc. June 12, 2015
1728:. About.com Military History. Archived from
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2882:People from Berkeley County, South Carolina
2812:Militia generals in the American Revolution
2176:. University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
2099:Marion's Men: A List of Twenty-Five Hundred
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1243:Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008
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1919:"Swamp Fox Festival | City of Marion, IA"
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1651:Dunkerly, Robert; Boland, Irene (2017).
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2181:Cornwallis and the War of Independence
2058:Dingfelder, Sadie (December 2, 2014).
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1230:United States House of Representatives
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2108:. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co. 2000.
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1016:holds an annual Swamp Fox Festival.
877:Concurrently, the British historian
807:magazine in 2007. In the 1835 novel
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1414:Dembroski, Rick (October 6, 2015).
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1824:Webley, Kayla (January 26, 2011).
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773:The Life of General Francis Marion
626:that was not in arms against us."
478:attempt to capture the capital of
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2155:. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
1804:Delbanco, Andrew (July 4, 1999).
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1215:South Carolina Air National Guard
899:In a commentary published in the
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2550:Ghosts of the American Civil War
2094:. Columbia, SC: State Co., 1923.
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702:South Carolina General Assembly
565:by John Blake White; his slave
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2194:The Swamp Fox, Smithsonian.com
2183:. John Dickens & Co, 1970.
1757:The Army Historical Foundation
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2852:South Carolina state senators
2179:Wickwire, Franklin and Mary.
1337:Final resting place of Marion
1325:Final resting place of Marion
1223:Exploring (Learning for Life)
1018:Marion County, South Carolina
640:Portrait of Banastre Tarleton
405:John Postell to serve in the
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2167:Swamp Fox: Birth of a Legend
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859:magazine cited when listing
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310:Though he never commanded a
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2002:US House of Representatives
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1113:Marion Center, Pennsylvania
749:South Carolina State Senate
721:brought the war to an end.
577:on July 27 just before the
494:A British force led by Sir
444:2nd South Carolina Regiment
342:Francis Marion was born in
222:Battle of Sullivan's Island
105:St. Stephen, South Carolina
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2160:The Life of Francis Marion
1751:Admin (January 27, 2015).
1701:Government. Archived from
1457:American Battlefield Trust
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1219:South Carolina State Guard
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950:The Life of Francis Marion
421:American Revolutionary War
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348:Province of South Carolina
217:American Revolutionary War
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1753:"First American Regiment"
1196:Marion Military Institute
1022:Francis Marion University
934:South Carolina: A History
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2097:Boddie, William Willis.
2090:Boddie, William Willis.
1622:American History Central
732:Philipsburg Proclamation
532:Battle of Monck's Corner
242:Battle of Tearcoat Swamp
2616:Lost Ship of the Desert
2172:Young, Jeffrey Robert.
2092:History of Williamsburg
1955:Gannett, Henry (1905).
1554:Buchanan, John (1997).
1511:Encyclopædia Britannica
1193:Military Junior College
1036:. In Washington, D.C.,
958:Athens State University
761:First American Regiment
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