After the surrender of Charleston, the British garrisoned South Carolina with help from local Tories, except for Williamsburg, which they were never able to hold. Marion rarely committed his men to frontal warfare, but repeatedly bewildered larger bodies of Loyalists or British regulars with quick surprise attacks and equally sudden withdrawal from the field. Marion operated from a base camp on Snow's Island in Florence County. Unlike the Continental troops, Marion's Men, as they were known, served without pay, supplied their own horses, arms and often their food. Marion showed himself to be a singularly able leader of irregular militiamen and ruthless in his terrorizing of Loyalists. Marion thus missed the battle, which proved to be a decisive British victory.

Gates sent Marion towards the interior to gather intelligence on the British enemy. Marion joined Major General Horatio Gates on July 27 just before the Battle of Camden, but Gates had formed a low opinion of 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. Army Rangers and the 75th Ranger Regiment. Marion used irregular methods of warfare and is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare and maneuver warfare, and is credited in the lineage of U.S. Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina and Charleston in 17, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden. Julia Rush Cutler Ward (great-niece), Julia Ward Howe (great-great-niece), Samuel Ward (great-great-nephew)įrancis Marion ( c. 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the Swamp Fox, was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

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