Description: Offered for auction from an estate sale is the following. An Early and Quite Scarce original 1831 Hard Cover book titled as follows from the front introduction page as photos will show. THE LIFE OF GEN. FRANCIS MARION A CELEBRATED PARTISAN OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AGAINST THE BRITISH AND TORIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA BY BRIG GEN. P. HORRY, OF MARICN’S BRIGADE: AND M. L. WEENS. PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH ALLEN, PHILADELPHIA AND SOLD BY J. GRIGG, 1831. This book “The Life of Gen. Francis Marion” was published in 1831. I believe that the first version was published in 1809 in Philadelphia. Noted in the book is the following D. Caldwell, Clerk of he Eastern District of Pennsylvania that the Copy Right has been purchased by Joseph Allen and is regularly transferred to him as Publisher of the book. The book was written by Brig Gen. P. Horry, of Maricn’s Brigade and M. L. Weems as noted above. This Brown Leather Covered hardcovered book with the title on the spine (LIFE OF MARION) in black with gold lettering contains 252 pages. The book was manufactured without a dustjacket. Below condition of this almost 200 year old book is as follows: As photos show heavy ware to cover and spine. Front cover reattached with glued paper. Rear hard cover still attached. Bindings for pages tight. There is spotting/discoloration old age toning to pages as photos will also shows. The name of the original owner has her name handwritten on the back of the introduction page as follows “Mrs E H Clewley St Stephen N B 183 St. On the last blank page some old handwitting is present also along with scribble pencil marks. Photographs have been taken indoors and out in direct sunlight hopefully to bring out the best of this quite rare book. A number of Illustrations are present in the book. Bindings are tight. The book size is 7 x 4 ½ x 1 inch. The book does not have a dustjacket as noted above. The books weight is 9.29 oz. Below I have typed the beginning of the PREFACE from the book along with 20+ photographs of the book exterior and interior in ad below, also in ad below I have placed from the internet information on Gen Francis Marion from Wikipedia. PREFACE: “O THAT mine enemy would write a book.” This, in former times, passed for as a good man could think of wishing to his worst enemy.--Whether any of my enemies ever wished me so great and evil, I know not. But certain it is, I never dreamed of such a thing as writing a book; and least of all a war book. What, I! a man here under the frozen zone and grand climacteric of my days, with one foot in the grave and the other hard by, to quit my prayer book and crutches, (and old man’s best companions,) and drawing my sword, flourish and fight over again the battles of my youth. The Lord forbid me such madness! But what can one do when one’s friends are eternally teasing him, as they are me, and calling out at every whipstitch and corner of the streets, “Well, but, sir, where’s Marion? Where’s the history of Marion, that we have so long been looking for?” ”Twas in vain that I told them I was no scholar, no historian. “God,” said I, “gentlemen, has made ‘many men of many minds;’ one for this thins and another for that. But I am morally certain he never made me for a writer. I did indeed once understand something about the use of a broad-sword; but as to a pen, gentlemen, that’s quite another part of speech. The difference between a broad-sword and a pen, gentlemen, is prodigious; and it was not every officer, et me tell you, gentlemen, who can, like Caesar, fight you a great battle with his sword to-day and fight it over again as elegantly with his pen to-morrow. Preface continues in book. Brigadier General Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the "Swamp Fox", was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the American Revolution, Marion supported the Patriot cause and enlisted in the Continental Army, fighting against British forces in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War from 1780 to 1781. Though he never commanded a field army or served as a commander in a major engagement, Marion's use of irregular warfare against the British has led him to be considered one of the fathers of guerrilla and maneuver warfare, and his tactics form a part of the modern-day military doctrine of the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment. Francis Marion was born in Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina around 1732. His father Gabriel Marion was a Huguenot who emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies from France at some point prior to 1700 due to the Edict of Fontainebleau and became a slave owning planter. Marion was born on his family's plantation, and at approximately the age of 15, he was hired on a merchant ship bound for the West Indies which sank on his first voyage; the crew escaped on a lifeboat but had to spend one week at sea before reaching land. In the following years, Marion managed the family's plantation, including overseeing the activities of the family's slaves. Marion began his military career shortly before his 25th birthday. On January 1, 1757, Francis and his brother, Job, were recruited by Captain John Postell to serve in the South Carolina Militia during the French and Indian War. Marion also saw service during the Anglo-Cherokee War. During the American Revolution, Marion supported the Patriot cause and on June 21, 1775, he was commissioned as an officer in the Continental Army's 2nd South Carolina Regiment (commanded by William Moultrie) at the rank of captain. Marion served with Moultrie in the defense of Fort Sullivan from a Royal Navy attack on June 28, 1776. In September 1776, the Continental Congress commissioned Marion as a lieutenant colonel. In the autumn of 1779, he took part in the siege of Savannah, a failed Franco-American attempt to capture the capital of Georgia which had been previously occupied by British forces. A British force led by Sir Henry Clinton entered South Carolina in the early spring of 1780 and laid siege to Charleston. Marion was not captured with the rest of the city's garrison when Charleston capitulated on May 12, 1780, as he had broken an ankle in an accident and had left the city to recuperate. Clinton led part of the force that had captured Charleston back to New York, but a significant number stayed for operations under Lord Charles Cornwallis in the Carolinas. After the loss of Charleston and the defeats suffered by Isaac Huger's men at the Battle of Monck's Corner and Abraham Buford's troops at the Battle of Waxhaws (near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County), Marion organized a small military unit, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men and was the only force then opposing the British in the region. At this point, Marion was still hobbling on his slowly healing ankle. Marion joined Major General Horatio Gates on July 27 just before the Battle of Camden, but Gates had formed a low opinion of Marion. Gates sent Marion towards the interior to gather intelligence on the British forces opposing them. He thus missed the battle, which resulted in a British victory. Marion showed himself to be a singularly able leader of irregular militiamen and ruthless in his terrorizing of Loyalists. Unlike the Continental Army, Marion's Men, as they were known, served without pay, supplied their own horses, arms and often their food. Marion's Men operated from a base camp on Snow's Island in Florence County. Marion rarely committed his men to frontal warfare but repeatedly bewildered larger bodies of Loyalists or British regulars with quick surprise attacks and equally sudden withdrawal from the field. After their capture of Charleston, the British garrisoned South Carolina with help from local Loyalists, except for Williamsburg, which they were never able to hold. The British made one attempt to garrison Williamsburg at the colonial village of Hilltown but were driven out by Marion at the Battle of Black Mingo. A state-erected information sign at Marion's gravesite on the former Belle Isle Plantation shows that he was engaged in twelve major battles and skirmishes in a two-year period: Black Mingo Creek on September 28, 1780; Tearcoat Swamp on October 25, 1780; Georgetown (four attacks) between October 1780 and May 1781; Fort Watson on April 23, 1781; Fort Motte on May 12, 1781; Quinby Bridge on July 17, 1781; Parker's Ferry on August 13, 1781; Eutaw Springs on September 8, 1781; and Wadboo Plantation on August 29, 1782. Cornwallis observed, "Colonel Marion had so wrought the minds of the people, partly by the terror of his threats and cruelty of his punishments, and partly by the promise of plunder, that there was scarcely an inhabitant between the Santee and the Pee Dee that was not in arms against us." This brief summary of Gen Francis Marion Life came from an article from Wikipedia on the internet. Please view photographs for condition I will accept PAYPAL. 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Publication Name: THE LIFE OF GEN. FRANCIS MARION
Book Title: THE LIFE OF GEN. FRANCIS MARION
Signed: No
Item Length: 7 INCHES
Original Language: English
Publisher: JOSEPH ALLEN PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1831
Type: Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Era: 1700s
Item Height: 1 INCH
Author: BRIG GEN P. HORRY AND M.L. WEEMS
Genre: History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: U.S. REVOLUTIONARY WAR ACTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA
Item Width: 4 1/2 INCHES
Item Weight: 9.29 OZ
Number of Pages: 252 Pages