Francis Marion was born on February 26, 1732, he was one of six children. His mother and father were Gabriel and Charlotte Marion. He was born on his parents’ plantation and lived there for the first five years of his life in Berkley County, South Carolina. Then his family settled down on a plantation near Georgetown, South Carolina. Although he wasn’t very educated, he was one of the great partisan leaders of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the War for Independence. He was known as the “Swamp Fox” because of his craftiness in eluding pursuers in the Carolina swamps and his brilliant guerrilla operations. When he was fifteen, he set out as a crewman aboard a schooner headed for the West Indies. It took a scary turn when
