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Francis Marion was born in Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina around 1732. His father Gabriel Marion was a Huguenot who emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies from France at some point prior to 1700 due to the Edict of Fontainebleau and became a slaveowning planter. [3]
Today, Francis Marion has a student body of approximately 4,000. FMU draws students from across the country and around the world, but remains true to its original mission: to educate the people of the Pee Dee Region and the State of South Carolina. The student body's average in-state enrollment is 95 percent. Just more than half of FMU's ...
This is a list of places named after Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. He had more places named after him than any other Revolutionary War soldier, with the exception of George Washington .
USS Francis Marion (APA-249) was a Paul Revere-class attack transport of the United States Navy.The ship was launched on 13 February 1954 as Prairie Mariner by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. C. A. Wolverton, and delivered on 25 May to the Maritime Administration who operated her until she was placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet on 6 January 1955.
Marion (named after Francis Marion, patriot of the American Revolution and of Huguenot ancestry) [12] Mentone (after Menton) [13] Mobile (French name for the indigenous Mauvilla tribe) [14] Mobile County [14] Moulton (after a settler) [15] Mon Louis (named for the nearby Mon Louis Island.
The Francis Marion National Forest is located north of Charleston, South Carolina. It is named for revolutionary war hero Francis Marion , who was known to the British as the Swamp Fox. It lies entirely within the Middle Atlantic coastal forests ecoregion . [ 3 ]
USCGC Marion (WSC-145), was a 125 ft (38 m) United States Coast Guard Active-class patrol boat in commission from 1927 to 1962. She was named for Francis Marion , an American Revolutionary War general who was known for his unconventional warfare tactics.
He was the son of an Englishman, Agerton Willis, [1] and a Cherokee slave making him born into slavery, his father Agerton granted Joseph freedom in his will upon his death however some family members denied Joseph his freedom, He was a "Marion Men" fighting during the Revolutionary War under General Francis Marion "The Swamp Fox" who is ...