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Article: Rising through the ranks.(Francis Marion and the French and Indian War, colonial South Carolina)
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- Cobblestone
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- December 1, 2001
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During the French and Indian War, Francis Marion led an important mission against the Cherokees. Then Captain William Moultrie praised him as "an excellent partisan officer."
After his father died in 1750, Francis Marion assumed the responsibilities of caring for his mother and farming his parents plantation. He enjoyed the farming life. Just shy of his twenty-fifth birthday, however, Marion embarked on a military career.
The French and Indian War (1754-1763) had been raging for nearly three years. Although there had been no fighting in South Carolina, the Cherokee Indians began to raise trouble as they returned home to that colony from the northwest ...