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WEEMS - The Life of Gen. Francis Marion 1845

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WEEMS, M. L. (1759-1825) and GEN. HORRY. The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia. Philadelphia: Published by Joseph Allen and Sold by Grigg & Elliot, 1845. 12mo. (7 x 4 1/4 inches). Wood-cut frontispiece, vi, [7]-251, [1]pp. 8pp. of advertisements before the titlepage. 5 full page wood-cut illustrations. Full leather (somewhat warped). A later edition of Weems' famed biography of Revolutionary War officer Francis Marion. The immensely popular biography of Francis Swamp Fox Marion, compiled from information supplied by Gen. Peter Horry and written by the famed parson Mason Weems. This book was the source of Marion's national fame, first published in 1809 and repeatedly expanded by its author.Weems, the early American biographer, is most famous for his apocryphal Life of Washington and this hagiographic portrait of the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion.

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