Swamp Fox
Gerson, Noel B.
When Charleston fell to the British and the entire South was in turmoil, Francis Marion gathered the remnants of the militia and developed a new kind of fighting- guerilla warfare in the untamed tidal marshes along the coast. Armed with an inexhaustible knowledge of the swamps, he harassed and evaded wave after wave of professional troops, badly thinning their ranks and contributed crucially to Britain's defeat in the Revolution.