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| | Francis Marion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Francis Marion University, a public institution of higher education in South Carolina, was named after the Swamp Fox. |
 | | Governor John Rutledge made him a brigadier-general of state troops, and in August 1780 Marion took command of the scanty militia, ill-equipped and ill-fed. With this force he was identified for almost all the remainder of the war in a partisan warfare in which he showed himself a singularly able leader of irregulars. |
 | | Marion was probably born at Winyah, near Georgetown, South Carolina, of Huguenot ancestry. |
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