This book relates a little known but crucial episode in the Revolutionary War, one that inspired the fictional motion picture, The Patriot, in 2000.
With no pay, little equipment,and less ammunition, a small band of backwoodsmen carried on a private war with the British redcoats in South Carolina during the American Revolution. Led by Francis Marion, this group of guerrilla fighters struck fear into the hearts of the British as they time and again ambushed British soldiers and knocked out a string of their forts before disappearing mysteriously into the swamps.
Marion's unorthodox tactics infuriated the British, who were more used to set battles on open ground. The redcoat soldiers became terrified of the unexpected and swift by this little band of irregulars and, demoralized, were eventually driven from the South.
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