Francis Marion
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Brigadier General Francis Marion, also known as the "Swamp Fox", was an American military officer, slaveowning planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the American Revolution, Marion supported the Patriot cause and enlisted in the Continental Army, fighting against British forces in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War from 1780 to 1781.
Francis Marion
General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal by John Blake White; his slave Oscar Marion kneels at the left of the group.
A portrait of Banastre Tarleton.
The Francis Marion Park is located in front of the Harborwalk in Georgetown, South Carolina.
Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War
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The southern theater of the American Revolutionary War was the central theater of military operations in the second half of the American Revolutionary War, 1778–1781. It encompassed engagements primarily in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Tactics consisted of both strategic battles and guerrilla warfare.
The Battle of Cowpens by William Ranney
Sir Henry Clinton led the British land forces in the failed attack on Charleston.
Portrait of General Benjamin Lincoln; by Charles Willson Peale
Lord Cornwallis took command when Sir Henry Clinton sailed for New York.