America250: Heroes of Our Coast — Francis Marion

Francis Marion — born c. 1732 in St. John’s Parish, SC; died Feb 27, 1795 at Pond Bluff, SC. 🇺🇸

The Swamp Fox. A broken ankle kept him out of Charleston’s fall — so he raised a guerrilla band and bled the British along the Pee Dee and Santee: Black Mingo, Tearcoat Swamp, Fort Motte, Eutaw Springs. Tarleton chased him 26 miles through the swamps and quit: “the Devil himself could not catch him.” Marion slept in swamps while the British burned farms. Congress thanked him. He never chased fame — he just owned the swamps.

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