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Portrait of Francis Marion

(1732-1795)

Continental Army Officer, Southern partisan leader. Commander of only Revolutionary forces in South Carolina, nicknamed "The Swamp Fox" by British for disrupting their plans with his outstanding guerilla warfare tactics from his base in swamps.

Francis Marion, Revolutionary leader in South Carolina Francis Marion