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Washington Monument for 'The Swamp Fox'?
...In their book, The Life of General Francis Marion, Brig. Gen. Peter Horry and Parson Mason L. Weems (Yes, the same over-dramatizing Parson Weems who spawned the legend of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree) published a letter from British Colonel John Watson to Marion that reads: Why sir, you must certainly command a horde of savages, who delight in nothing but murder. I can't cross a swamp or a bridge, but I am waylaid and shot at as if I were a mad dog. Even my sentries are fired at and killed on their posts. Why, my God, sir! This is not the way that Christians ought to fight!" Marions purported response to Watsons letter stated that from what he knew of British officers, he was as duty bound to kill them as he was the wild animals of the woods. A haunting nemesis is how author Robert D. Bass described Marion in his book, Swamp Fox. He usually struck at midnight, slaughtering and frightening and throwing his enemies into a panic... Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-02-13 |
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