On January 24, 1781, Patriot commanders Lieutenant Colonel Light Horse Henry Lee and Brigadier General Francis Swamp Fox Marion of the South Carolina militia combine forces and conduct a raid on Georgetown, South Carolina, which is defended by 200 British soldiers.
Marion won fame and the Swamp Fox moniker for his ability to strike and then quickly retreat into the South Carolina swamps without a trace. His military strategy is considered an 18th-century example of guerilla warfare and served as partial inspiration for the film The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson.
Marion took over the South Carolina militia force first assembled by Thomas Sumter in 1780. Sumter, the other inspiration for Mel Gibson’s character in the film, returned Carolina Loyalists’ terror tactics in kind after Loyalists burned his plantation. When Sumter withdrew from active fighting to care for a wound, Marion replaced him and strategized with Major General Nathaniel Greene, who had recently arrived in the Carolinas to lead the Continental forces. On January 24, the Patriots under Marion and Lee managed to arrive at Georgetown undetected and captured at least three officers, including the British commander.
The following month, Lee’s cavalry was able to defeat a band of Loyalist cavalry at Haw River, North Carolina, by taking advantage of the extreme similarity of Patriot uniforms to those of British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton’s troops. British Colonel John Pyle’s men at Haw River were surprised to discover that the horsemen approaching them were not friends, as they appeared from a distance, but foes. Losing three fingers and blinding one eye in the course of combat, Colonel Pyle, a doctor by profession, survived by hiding in what is now known as Pyle’s Pond.
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Aim small
Miss small
Good advice to remember
No matter what the endeavor you might undertake.
Truly.
Khazarian Mafia/Radknights infiltrated the confederacy to try to defeat the U.S. and keep their slave trade alive. Russia helped save the U.S. again. That’s why the deep state (current configuration of the money changers/Khazarian/Radknights) continue to hate russia.
Know your local terrain, know the choke points, store sand to dump in their gears. Grind them to a halt one grain of sand at a time.
I keep saying that when the SHTF and marauders fan out from the cities looking for food and resources, that you have home turf advantage, USE IT.
Gen. Marion is buried off SC 45 in the middle of nowhere. As a Marion Military Institute grad, stop by it when in the area.
More history that will never be taught in our woke indoctrination centers…until we take them back.
The Patriot is easily in my top 5 movies, right alongside Braveheart.
“Marion took over the South Carolina militia force first assembled by Thomas Sumter in 1780.”
This is historically inaccurate. Thomas Sumter was despised by Francis Marion, and universally hated by Marion’s brigade. Marion took over the South Carolina militia force first assembled by Lieut. Col. Hugh Horry and Major John James in the Kingstree / St. Stephens area.
Sumter had nothing to do with it. Sumter was off stealing horses, burning Tory farms, hanging his neighbors, and confiscating negroes from Loyalists with his own merry band of militia from a different part of the Free and Sovereign State. Shit that Marion refused to do.
where is francis marion to tell all about the swamp fox?
Light Horse Harry Lee was Robert E Lee’s father. Just in case anybody didn’t know.