South
Carolina
The almost legendary figure Francis Marion (the Swamp Fox), also contributed to
the British retreat. Marion and his men would hide in the swamps and strike out
in surprise at British troops, only to vanish again into the unwelcoming swampland.
British forces finally withdrew from Charleston in 1782. In 1861, when Fort Sumter
in Charleston Harbor was fired upon, the Civil War began, and South Carolina was
again engaged in war. |
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