... focus of the stars which burned perhaps, not quite so bright, or maybe for a shorter period of time. Perhaps the arena in which they worked was not as well known or less exposed to the world, but their work and achievements demand the same accord as their more published cousins. One of these individuals was the famed "Swamp Fox" of the Revolutionary War's southern campaign. Francis Marion was born in 1732 in Berkeley County, South Carolina, the youngest of six children of French Huguenot settlers. As a child, he explored the surrounding swamps, until he knew them like the back of his hand. It is said that he never got lost. He learned about the local Indians and their methods of fighting and surviving in the swamps. His incessant exploring and foraging provided the means for his developing into an expert marksman as well as a horseman without equal. He ...

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