Mel Crawford: Francis Marion "The Swamp Fox"

Artist: Mel Crawford
1925 -
Nationality: Canadian
Artwork Year: 1982
Image Size: 12.5 by 14.375 inches
Overall Size: 14.875 by 17.25 inches
Medium: Oil on Cold Press Illustration Board

In early 1780, Britain's land and sea forces attacked what was considered to be the "soft underbelly" of the American colonies -- the South. But by late August of that same year, British Lord Cornwallis knew that he had on his hands an unexpected foe as pesky as the Carolina mosquito and more deadly than the malaria that plagued the British troops. Francis Marion, who was to cause Cornwallis so much grief, was a wizened South Carolina planter -- hardy, energetic, and one of the greatest partisan leaders of the American Revolutionary War. Indeed, Marion's fame rests largely upon his ferocious hit-and-run fighting tactics, a style of warfare that was to first drive the frustrated British to the point of madness, and then to a hurried retreat away from the inhospitable swamps of South Carolina. Marion came at the Redcoats with frightening speed and with devastating power in his sting. On one occasion, British Colonel Tarleton chased the partisan leader for days on end. But bogs, flooded streams and tangled thickets seemed to rise up before him as he pursued the vanishing Marion through the swamplands. "This dammed old fox!" Tarleton exclaimed, giving Francis Marion his famous nickname, Swamp Fox, "the devil himself could not catch him!"

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day of Issue Postal Card for Francis Marion "Swamp Fox" issued April 3, 1982.

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