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It's 1780. Francis Marion, who will come to be known as the Swamp Fox, inspiration for the film The Patriot starring Mel Gibson, is rolling on the ground outside a house in Charleston, South Carolina. He clutches his ankle, grimacing in pain. He's just leapt from a second-story window to escape one very tedious party,

where his fellow Patriot officers were drinking to get drunk with endless toasts to their own noble cause.

A devil-may-care attitude has swept through the Americans in Charleston,

five years into the war, struggling up north, the British have come south.

And General Cornwallis will lead his troops to a triumphant capture of Charleston, taking 5,000

patriot prisoners of war. Little would Cornwallis know, though, that this teetotalling American

now clutching his busted ankle and writhing in pain will become a painful and

inescapable thorn in his side, turning the backwaters of South Carolina into his own

fortress, harrying the British at every chance, earning himself a nickname, the Swamp Fox.

Music Good day, history hit listeners. This is American History Hit.

And I'm your host, Don Wildman. Thanks for punching us up on your pods.

Today we have the story of a bold figure of the American Revolution, a man who, if you don't know his name, you probably know some version of his character, if not his actual person.

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