Francis Marion

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Brigadier General Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the "Swamp Fox", was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the American Revolution, Marion supported the Patriot cause and enlisted in the Continental Army, fighting against British forces in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War from 1780 to 1781.

Though he never commanded a field army or served as a commander in a major engagement, Marion's use of irregular warfare against the British has led him to be considered one of the fathers of guerrilla and maneuver warfare, and his tactics form a part of the modern-day military doctrine of the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment.^[1]^[2]

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0:00.0	Okay, guys, wake up. We're here.
0:02.7	Jesus, Eli, did you drug the water cooler again?
0:06.5	Maybe.
0:08.0	Where are we?
0:09.5	Wait, are we in Italy?
0:11.5	Why are we at a river?
0:13.5	It's for today's essay on Marion Francis.
0:15.5	It's a Francis Marion, Eli.
0:18.0	Whatever, it's two first names. Who cares what order it's in?
0:20.5	But what does Italy have to do with it?
0:22.5	Uh, we're crossing the Rubicon, just like in the Revolutionary War.
0:27.0	Eli, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC.
0:31.0	Well, they crossed a river in the Revolutionary War, Cecil.
0:36.0	They crossed the Delaware, but Francis Marion wasn't even in that part of the country.
0:40.0	He was fucking fighting in the swamps.
0:42.0	Why they call him the swamp fox?
0:45.0	Well, I knew that's the only fact I knew about the war of dependence.
0:49.0	So that's what I said.
0:51.0	In dependence.
0:52.0	Eli, I would argue you don't even know that.
0:54.0	Okay, we're at the wrong river.
0:57.0	Well, not a total loss.
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