Francis Marion
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Brigadier General Francis Marion, also known as the "Swamp Fox", was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During
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.
Portrait of Banastre Tarleton by Joshua Reynolds, 1782
The Francis Marion Park is located in front of the Harborwalk in Georgetown, South Carolina.
South Carolina was outraged over British tax policies in the 1760s that violated what they saw as their constitutional right to "no taxation without representation". Merchants joined the boycott again
British General Henry Clinton
Gathering of Overmountain Men at Sycamore Shoals, by Lloyd Branson, depict Overmountain Men en route to their victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780
Battle of Cowpens, 1781