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See also:MARION, See also:FRANCIS (1732-1795) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in 1732, probably at Winyah, near See also:Georgetown, See also:South Carolina, of Huguenot ancestry. In 1759 he settled on See also:Pond See also:Bluff See also:plantation near Eutaw Springs, in St See also:John's See also:parish, See also:Berkeley See also:county. In 1761 he served as a See also:lieutenant under See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Moultrie in a See also:campaign against the Cherokees. In 1775 he was a member of the South Carolina Provincial See also:Congress; and on the 21st of See also:June was commissioned See also:captain in the 2nd South Carolina See also:regiment under W. Moultrie, with whom he served in June 1776 in the See also:defence of Fort See also:Sullivan (Fort Moultrie), in See also:Charleston Harbor. In See also:September 1776 the See also:Continental Congress commissioned him a lieutenant-See also:colonel. In the autumn of 1779 he took See also:part in the See also:siege of See also:Savannah, and See also:early in 1780, under See also:General See also:Benjamin See also:Lincoln, was engaged in drilling See also:militia. After the See also:capture of Charleston (May 12, 1780) and the defeats of General See also:Isaac Huger at See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk's Corner (Berkeley county, South Carolina) and Lieut.-Colonel See also:Abraham Buford at the Waxhaws (near the See also:North Carolina See also:line, in what is now See also:Lancaster county), Marion organized a small See also:troop—which usually consisted of between 20 and 70 men—the only force then opposing the See also:British in the See also:state. See also:Governor John See also:Rutledge made him a brigadier-general of state troops, and in See also:August 1780 Marion took command of the scanty militia, See also:ill equipped and ill fed. With this force he was identified for almost all the See also:remainder of the See also:war in a See also:partisan warfare in which he showed himself a singularly able See also:leader of irregular troops. On the 20th of August he captured 150 See also:Maryland prisoners, and about a See also:score of their British guard; and in September and See also:October repeatedly surprised larger bodies of See also:Loyalists or British regulars. Colonel Banastre See also:Tarleton, sent out to capture him, despaired of finding the " old swamp See also:fox," who eluded him by following swamp paths. When General See also:Nathanael See also:Greene took command in the south, Marion and Colonel See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee were ordered in See also:January 1781 to attack Georgetown, but they were unsuccessful. In See also:April, however, they took Fort See also:Watson and in May Fort Motte, and they succeeded in breaking communications between the British posts in the Carolinas. On the 31st of August Marion rescued a small American force hemmed in by See also:Major C. See also:Fraser with 500 British; and for this he received the thanks of Congress. He commanded the right wing under General Greene at Eutaw Springs. In 1782, during his See also:absence as state senator at Jacksonborough, his See also:brigade deteriorated and there was a See also:conspiracy to turn him over to the British. In June of the same See also:year he put down a Loyalist uprising on the See also:banks of the Pedee See also:river; and in August he See also:left his brigade and returned to his plantation. He served several terms in the state See also:Senate, and in 1784, in recognition of his services, was made See also:commander of Fort See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, practically a See also:courtesy See also:title with a See also:salary of £500 per annum. He died on his See also:estate on the 27th of See also:February 1795. Marion was small, slight and sickly-looking. As a soldier he was See also:quick, watchful, resourceful and See also:calm, the greatest of partisan leaders in the See also:bitter struggle in the Carolinas.
See the See also:Life (New See also:York, 1844) by W. G. See also:Simms ; See also:Edward McCrady, South Carolina in the Revolution (New York, 1 o1–1902); and a careful study of Marion's ancestry and early life by " R. Y." in vols. i. and ii. of the See also:Southern and Western Monthly See also:Magazine and See also:Review (Charleston, 1845).
End of Article: MARION, FRANCIS (1732-1795)
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