The Life of General Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partisan Officer, in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia |
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User Review - setnahkt - LibraryThingPicked up after reading several accounts of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina. Principal author and first person voice is Peter Horry, a colonel in Marion’s “regiment” (although nominally a ... Read full review
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| Title | The Life of General Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partisan Officer, in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia |
| Authors | Mason Locke Weems, Peter Horry |
| Publisher | J. Allen, 1852 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 252 pages |
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