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The Life of General Francis Marion
The Life of General Francis Marion
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Author: Horry, Peter and Mason Locke Weems
Title: The Life of General Francis Marion, A Celebrated Partizan Leader, In The Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories, in South-Carolina and Georgia
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:M. Carey & Sons
Date Published: 1822
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251pp. plus six handcolored plates. (12mo) 17.3x104 cm (6¾x4"), full leather with leather spine label in gilt. Eight Edition.



General Francis Marion, "The Swamp Fox," was one of the leading American commanders in the Revolution in the South. His brilliant operations in the Carolinas kept thousands of British troops tied down and contributed immensely to ultimate American victory. Plain and unassuming, he was widely beloved by his contemporaries, and after his death this book began the process of his ascent to legend. Horry, his second-in-command for part of the war, supplied many of the facts, although he was allegedly disgusted by Weems' flowery passages and disclaimed any connection with the book. What he disliked, others embraced, and the book went through many editions. This edition not in Howes.



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Moderate wear; hinges starting; bookplate on rear pastedown; foxing throughout; very good.
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