Author: Mason Locke WeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Life of General Francis Marion
Author: Mason Locke WeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Life of General Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partisan Officer
Author: Mason Locke WeemsThe Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
Author: Mason Locke WeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Life of Gen. Francis Marion
Author: Mason Locke WeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
Author: Mason Locke WeemsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368871897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Life of General Francis Marion
Author: Parson M. L. WeemsPublisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
ISBN: 9780895874962
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Biography of General Francis Marion after the fall of Charleston during the American Revolution.
The Life of Major Gen. Francis Marion
Author: Mason Locke WeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Life of General Francis Marion: A Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georg
Author: Peter HorryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781436639217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This compelling biography covers the life of patriot Francis "The Swamp Fox" Marion and his role in the American Revolutionary War as a partisan leader against the Tories.
The Life of Gen. Francis Marion
Author: Mason Locke WeemsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Life of Gen. Francis Marion; a Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
Author: Mason Locke WeemsPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230212401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... to be hung. Every body in Charleston, Britons as well as Americans, all heard this sentence with horror, except colonel Haynes himself. On his cheek alone, all agree, it produced no change. It appeared that the deed which he had done, signing that accursed paper, had run him desperate. Though the larger part, even of his enemies, believing that it was done merely from sympathy with his wife and children, felt the generous disposition to forgive him, yet he could never forgive himself. It had inflicted on his mind a wound too ghastly to be healed. To their own, and to the great honor of human nature, numbers of the British and loyalists, with governor Bull at their head, preferred a petition to lord Rawdon in his behalf. But the petition was not noticed. The ladies then came forward in his favor with a petition, couched in the most delicate and moving terms, and signed by all the principal females of Charleston, tories as well as whigs. But all to no purpose. It was then suggested by the friends of humanity, that if the colonel's little children, for they had no mother, she, poor woman! crushed under the double weight of grief and the small-pox, was just sunk at rest in the grave. It was suggested, I say, that if the colonel's little children, dressed in mourning, were to fall at the knees of lord Rawdon, he would pity their motherless condition, and give to their prayers their only surviving parent. They were accordingly dressed in black, and introduced into his presence: they fell down at his knees, and, with clasped hands and tear-streaming eyes, lisped their father's name, and begged his life: but in vain. So many efforts to save him, both by friends and generous foes, could not be made, unknown to colonel Haynes. But he appeared...