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The city features a statue of General Marion in the town square, and has a museum which includes many artifacts related to Francis Marion; the Marion High School mascot is the Swamp Fox. Francis Marion University is located nearby in Florence County, South Carolina. The Swamp Fox is a wooden roller coaster located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The Swamp Fox is a television miniseries produced by Walt Disney Studios and starring Leslie Nielsen as American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. [1] [2] The show was based on the 1959 book Swamp Fox: The Life and Campaigns of General Francis Marion by Robert D. Bass. [3]
The Swamp Fox, a 1959-1961 Disney-produced television series about Francis Marion; Swamp Fox (roller coaster), located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S. 157th Fighter Squadron, a unit of the South Carolina Air National Guard 169th Fighter Wing
Marion Park is a public park named after Revolutionary War leader Francis Marion also known as The Swamp Fox. It is located at 4th Street, 6th Street, and E Street, Southeast, Washington, D.C., in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Locally, it is known informally as Turtle Park because of the large cement turtle in its playground. [1]
Francis Marion Campbell (May 25, 1929 – July 13, 2016) was an American football defensive lineman and coach. He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1949 until 1951, where he was nicknamed " Swamp Fox " after Revolutionary War General Francis Marion.
In the 1959–1961 American Disney television series The Swamp Fox, John Sutton portrayed Colonel Banastre Tarleton to Leslie Nielsen’s Francis Marion. In the novel Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell (the first in the Richard Sharpe series), the novel's main antagonist, Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson is said to be a cousin of Tarleton. He relies ...
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Francis Marion, nicknamed "Swamp Fox", and others who operated mainly in South Carolina are most remembered for this type of guerrilla warfare, but North Carolina units also adopted these tactics. Williamson was attached to a force under Brigadier General Isaac Gregory whose mission was to limit British activity in eastern North Carolina.