Francis Marion Quotes
Pity me not. I am happier than you; for I am fighting to be free, while you are striving to enslave your countrymen.
Marion was the initiator of Guerilla Warfare and he and his men traveled lightly spending much time in the South Carolina swamps. They had few supplies and when chased by the British could not stop to hunt. The British called him the “Swamp Fox”. The American colonists at this point still thought of the British as “their countrymen.”
Francis Marion, ~1732–1795, Revolutionary War General, Reply to a captured British Officer who pitied the half-starved condition of the Marion and his men
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The Congress was encouraging all men volunteer for the military and defend the new nation now that the British were landing in force to put down the revolution. By modern language standards, this is a little “over the top” but it shows not only the passion felt by the Congress but the importance they placed on the struggle.
The first sentence of this quotation was a favorite of Paine's. He had earlier used it in Common Sense in 1776. See {635451}.
Chile with help from San Martin had ejected the Spanish. O’Higgins, the Chilean leader had joined up with San Martin and served under his command. The sectional rivalry bothered men like Carrera. Instead of seeing all the South Americans fighting the Spanish as allies as O’Higgins did, Carrera and his brothers refused to join a government of unity and they and their troops were just as dictatorial and cruel as the Spanish had been. O’Higgins gave Indians and Blacks equal rights with whites which distressed the aristocratic Carrera’s. Finally the Carrera’s tried to set up their own government, and the new Chilean government disarmed their militia and executed two of the three Carrera brothers who were leading the militia troops who were little more than thieves and brigands.
The Parliament was debating the reaction to the Stamp Act by the American Colonies. One of the members, reflecting a majority view, asked sarcastically when the American Colonies had been emancipated so that they could make their own independent decisions. Pitt then hit this one out of the park by reversing the question.
See Thomas Jefferson: {605051} for a somewhat similar notion.
The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.
The entire speech was translated into Spanish and read to great applause to Latin American revolutionary regiments.
This was one of the first calls for a slave strike in America.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999} Franklin Delano Roosevelt later used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999}. This was one of the great quotations to come out of the Spanish Revolution. It inspired freedom loving people the world over, then and through this day.
For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
See also {612345} for a contemporary description of the Slavs.
St. Domingue was the name of Haiti which had had the only successful national slave revolt, but it was incredibly bloody with many casualties.
See Joseph Addison which may have been the inspiration for this famous quote: {613374}.
Francis Marion, also known as the Swamp Fox, was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina and Charleston in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden. Marion used irregular methods of warfare and is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare and maneuver warfare, and is credited in the lineage of U.S. Army Rangers and the 75th Ranger Regiment.
