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	Portrait of Francis Marion http://earlyamerica.com/portraits/marion.html 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.
	The Life of General Francis Marion by Weems http://sailor.gutenberg.org/etext97/wfmar10.txt Parson Weems (Mason Locke Weems, 1759-1825), in an honest effort to teach a high patriotism, nobility, and morality, sometimes embellished or exaggerated his stories to the point of falsehood, as with his invention of the cherry tree anecdote in his Life of Washington. It seems strange that such a devotion to moral teaching should use falsehoods to reach its audience, but he apparently felt the means justified by the end. “The facts, in the life of Francis Marion, are far less generally extended in our country than his fame. This biography, though historically based, should not be considered factual. It is not that there was no such man -- indeed there was, and other accounts indicate that Francis Marion is as deserving of praise as this account would indicate -- or moreso. It is not that the events described did not take place -- most of them, at least, did. [Scroll through the “small print” of the Gutenberg Project to find the story.]
	The Life of Francis Marion by Simms http://sailor.gutenberg.org/etext97/1sfox10.txt The present is an attempt to supply this deficiency, and to justify, by the array of authentic particulars, the high position which has been assigned him among the master-workers in our revolutionary history.” Project Gutenberg's Etext of The Life of Francis Marion by Simms. By W. Gilmore Simms, [William Gilmore Simms, American (South Carolinian) Writer. 1806-1870], Author of "Yemassee", "History of South Carolina", etc. [Scroll through the “small print” of the Gutenberg Project to find the story.]
	Heroes of the Revolution: Francis Marion http://library.thinkquest.org/11683/FMarion.html The greatest guerrilla fighter in the American Revolution was Francis Marion. Incredibly daring, he terrorized the entire British Army in South Carolina, striking with fantastic swiftness, then vanishing ghost-like into the swamps.
	A Culinary legend: Francis Marion and the Sweet Potatoes http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/swtpot.htm "General Francis Marion, of South Carolina. In his swamp Encampment, inviting a British Officer to share his Dinner of sweet Potatoes and cold Water." Engraving by Currier and Ives, 1876. South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina. Based on the painting by John Blake White, 1836.
	Picture of Francis Marion’s Grave and Historical Marker http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/669.html Picture of the grave site at Belle Isle Plantation in South Carolina.
	A Sketch of the Life of BRIG. GEN. FRANCIS MARION, and A History of his Brigade (by James) http://sailor.gutenberg.org/etext97/jjmar10.txt BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fifth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and in the forty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, the Honourable WILLIAM DOBEIN JAMES, deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in the words following, TO WIT: "A Sketch of the life of Brigadier General FRANCIS MARION, and a history of his Brigade from its rise in June, 1780, until disbanded in December, 1782; with descriptions of characters and scenes not heretofore published. -- Containing also an appendix, with copies of letters which passed between several of the leading characters of that day, principally from Gen. Greene to Gen. Marion. By William Dobein James, A.M. during that period one of Marion's militia -- at present one of the Associate Judges in Equity, South-Carolina." [Scroll through the “small print” of the Gutenberg Project to find the story.]