Francis Marion

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a brief insight into Francis Marion

Francis Marion know as "the swamp fox" revolutionary officer from Berkeley county south Carolina.
commissioned officer in the south Carolina second regiment  he also led a band of irregular fighters in the back and low country swamps of south Carolina fighting the British troops under lord Cornwallis.
Francis Marion is the father of guerrilla warfare and is recognized as such at various war colleges. general Marion was a lifelong citizen soldier and planter living on his plantation pond bluff which now lies under lake Marion in central south Carolina. he fought as lieutenant in the french and Indian war in the 1750s.

 one interesting fact about his life is that he was carried out of Charleston in 1780 with a broken ankle suffered when he jumped out of a window to escape a loyalist trap, thus avoiding the fall of Charleston on under general Benjamin Lincoln and his 5,000 continental troops. after Charleston had fallen and the Americans were driven from the field at the battle of Camden in august of 1780 general Marion and his band of irregulars. native Americans were the only organized fighting force in action in America as general Washington army was at stalemate outside of British occupied new york.