The most successful partisan in American history, Francis Marion, and his colleagues Thomas Sumter and Andrew Pickens, and a host of others, led bands of irregulars in South Carolina after the British took Charleston in 1780. The diminutive Marion kept his men under tight control, and launched constant raids on the British. When regular Continental forces re-appeared in South Carolina, Marion gave invaluable assistance in the liberation of his home state.  Marion and General Nathaniel Greene, commander of the Continental troops in South Carolina frequently clashed as two strong willed men have a tendency to do, but he paid Marion this handsome tribute in a letter on April 24, 1781:
When I consider how much you have done and suffered, and under what disadvantage you have maintained your ground, I am at a loss which to admire most, your courage and fortitude, or your address and management…History affords no instance wherein an officer has kept possession of a Country under so many disadvantages as you have; surrounded on every side with a superior force…To fight the enemy bravely with a prospect of victory is nothing; but to fight with intrepidty under the constant impression of a defeat, and inspire irregular troops to do it, is a talent peculiar to yourself.
I find it most interesting that South Carolina was probably the most pro independence colony and equally pro secession during the Civil war.
Too pro secession for their fellow Confederate States. At the Confederate constitutional convention the South Carolina delegates proposed that a right of secession be enshrined in the Confederate Constitution. South Carolina was the only state to vote in favor of the proposal.
Rewriting the Constitution to accommodate any dispute is not fair. The Southern states seeking secession had voted to being part of the Union. Now they want out but without following Art.4 Section 3 of the Constitution which requires the secessionists states to seek permission of Congress.
Rewriting a Constitution breaks the Constitution.
The British soldiers were afraid of the ambushes led by Francis Marion and refused to go into the swamp where they would have been wiped out.
Disney made several series featuring such early heroes as Francis Marion the Swamp Fox, Davy Crockett and Danial Boone. Leslie Nielson and Fess Parker were two actors that starred in the shows. In those years Disney products were both educational and entertaining. My brother had a coon skin hat.
Remember: FORT SUMTER!
Haven’t yet watched it.
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Tangential to the topic, but the life and work of Walt Disney amazes, and the character of the men who run the company today disgusts.
Aet Deco:
Disney today is marketing tarot cards. Can that company sink any lower? I think not. Wednesday is a day when sodomites kiss on Main Street in front of families and children.
Jesus said that scandalizing one of these innocent ones needs a millstone about the neck in the depths of the sea.
My dad had two millstones for sharpening his axes. I offered the millstones to Cardinal Roger Mahoney. Mahoney did not reply.