Deep in the swamps of South Carolina, one small, limping, unremarkable man changed the course of the American Revolution. This is the true story of Brigadier General Francis Marion — known to history as "The Swamp Fox" — the guerrilla fighter who refused to surrender when every army around him had been crushed, who turned the dark cypress swamps of the Carolina lowcountry into the most effective battlefield in the Revolutionary War, and whose tactics are still taught at West Point and practiced by the 75th Ranger Regiment today. Born in 1732 to French Huguenot immigrants, Marion survived a shipwreck at fifteen, fought in the French and Indian War, and was forged by the South Carolina wilderness into something the British Empire had never encountered and could never defeat. When Charleston fell in 1780 — the largest American military surrender of the entire war — Marion disappeared into the swamp with twenty men and began one of the most extraordinary guerrilla campaigns in military history. British Colonel Banastre Tarleton — the most feared cavalry commander in America — chased him for seven hours through the Carolina swamps and gave up, declaring that "the Devil himself could not catch this man." That is how Francis Marion became The Swamp Fox. This cinematic documentary tells his complete story — from birth to death, from the swamp to the Senate — with the honesty, grit, and epic scale this American hero deserves. His shadow stretches two and a half centuries forward. It is time you knew his name.
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