Francis marion biography timeline worksheet

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    • Patriot Militia General Francis Marion
    Born: 1732; St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina
    Died: February 26, 1795; Pond's Bluff, South Carolina

    Battles:Fort Sullivan

    Additional Information: Camden, Charleston, King's Mountain, Charles Cornwallis, Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene, Henry Lee, William Moultrie, Thomas Sumter, Banastre Tarleton



    1732
    - Francis Marion is born in St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina.

    1747
    - Francis Marion attempts to sail to the West Indies.

    1753
    - Francis Marion joins a militia company that does not see action in the French and Indian War.

    1760
    - Francis Marion serves as a lieutenant under Captain William Moultrie in the Cherokee War.
    June - Francis Marion valiantly leads thirty men into a known Indian ambush.

    1773
    - Francis Marion buys a plantation north of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, calling it Pond's Bluff.

    1775
    - Francis Marion is elected to the South Carolina Provincial