This book covers the incredible true story of a real American patriot. Francis Marion is known to history as a premier fighter and battlefield innovator. In one of the darkest chapters of the War for American independence his resolute personal courage and leadership brought the best units in the British Empire to a standstill and kept the dream of independence alive after the disastrous fall of Charleston, SC in 1780. When General Gate’s army was destroyed at Camden there was no effective American force to oppose Cornwallis in his conquest of the southern colonies. Marion’s irregulars tied down Cornwallis’ forces to deal with an insurgency that bought time for General Washington to assemble another army under Daniel Morgan and General Greene to combat the British main effort. If not for Francis Marion’s ability to confound the British efforts in South Carolina, Lord Cornwallis and the British could have very well succeeded in their overall strategy to sever the Carolinas, Georgia and possibly Virginia from the emerging United States.
