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Snow's Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry marion-francis
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Marion, Francis
Military officer; born near Georgetown, S. C., in 1732; died Feb. 29, 1793.
At the age of sixteen, while on a voyage to the West Indies, the vessel in which he sailed foundered at sea, and he was rescued only when several of the crew, who, with himself, had taken to the boat, had died of starvation.
Working on a farm until 1759, that year he joined an expedition against the Cherokees.
In 1761 he was made a captain, under Colonel Grant.
He led the forlorn hope in the battle of Etchowee, and was among the few who escaped death.
On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, Marion was elected to the South Carolina Provincial Congress; became a captain of Provincial troops; served as major in defence of Fort Sullivan; and was lieutenant-colonel of his regiment at Savannah in 1779, and at the siege of Charleston.
Appointed a brigadier-general in 1780,
Francis Marion. he began his famous partisan career with only sixteen men.
He had gathered many partisans to
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