"The Swamp Fox – Inside Francis Marion’s Guerrilla War" Topic

… Against the British Redcoats

"Few today put much stock in the notion that America's victory in the War of Independence was won by the amateur citizen soldier. According to such debunked narratives, brave frontiersmen in homespun, sniping from behind trees and rocks with their own personal fowling pieces, outfought Britain's elite redcoats whose unimaginative generals insisted on marching them into battle as if it were a parade-square review. But that's not to say that irregular warfare had no impact on the Revolutionary War. Indeed, one of the Patriot cause's greatest figures was a master of what would later be known as guerrilla tactics. Francis Marion, a commander of rebel forces in South Carolina after the Crown's capture of Charleston, famously led a small band of militiamen on a two-year backwoods campaign against the British and Loyalist forces across the region – one that was marked by hit-and-run raids, surprise attacks and ambushes. So elusive was Marion's unit, the British cavalry officer tasked with hunting down and destroying it, Colonel Banastre Tarleton, dubbed the rebel leader the "Old Swamp Fox." The name stuck. In his book General Francis Marion: Irregular Life of an Irregular Warrior, author, history professor and retired U.S. Army major Craig Campbell explores Swamp Fox's impact on the war while comparing him with other famous guerrilla leaders from history. Below, Craig provides an overview of Marion's accomplishments…."

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Armand

How can we think anything positive about Mr. Marion?! The man owned slaves and led a vicious war against the innocent, peace loving Native Americans!

Obviously I am joking and he is one of my favorites, but with all that is going on in the US and based on other threads In TMP currently and in the past, this will come up in the the current "PC" US. 😢😡

should change the name of any school named after him too….just like Dan'l Boone….

Dave, I'm sure it is coming. 😢 Of course depending on the State and or City it is in.

Yea….I would be sure too. (I did, tho, mean it sarcastically..😳🙄)

Ridiculous….

I would have been sarcastic too a couple of years back. 🙂

Wouldn't mind reading the book. Marion is one of my favorites.

Glup!…

Armand

My $.02 USD cents,

I couldn't agree more with the near-psychotic thinking of those poor lost souls of today, who think that owning slaves was considered a BAD THING! If you treat anyone bad, you should be punished for it (weather they were a slave owner or not)! There are two sides to every coin. Just think about the times that these people lived in and if they did good or bad.
Another side of the coin is, how about slaves who themselves were bad people. I am sure that there were some/many---I just don't know who they were!
Tom Semian
Irvine, PA. 16329

Glup II!

Armand

Moreover, in those days doctors didn't wash their hands before treating patients. Or after.
Nor did cooks or scullions, I am told.

You are right…

Armand