Francis Marion

Most knew him as a leader. At the center of a revolution he made his mark. The start of a change began slowly. Those around the world learned of the controversy. His accomplishment led to the presidency of a certain college.

He was a person who went to great lengths to show his help, however he was not secretive about it. He wrote a newspaper call the Tocsin of Liberty, in which he not only published the first names of the people he helped to freedom, but also the names of their slave masters. Because of this many slave owners had arrest warrants written for his imprisonment (Able Brown).

George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri during the spring of 1864 or 1865. Like many slaves, he was uncertain of his birth date. His mother, Mary, was a slave who belonged to Moses and Susan Carver. As an infant, slave raiders kidnapped his mother. The childless carvers reared George and his older brother, James.

Who was the man behind the myth of the “Swamp Fox” and what is the legend of the general? Francis Marion was born February 26, 1732 in Berkeley County, South Carolina to a family of plantation owners. Not much is known about his early life before he began his military career. The only information that is known is that from the manuscripts of the men who served with him. What he is most known for are his accomplishments as a military leader and a solider. General Tarleton of the British forces, stated, about Francis Marion, that “as for this damned old fox, the devil himself could not catch him” this statement was the beginning of his nickname the “swamp Fox”. He was not just this myth of a General of the American Revolution he was just an everyday American who just happen to be very good at his craft of being a military leader and strategist. And who’s legend is shadowed in both fact and fiction through the years of time.

He is looked upon in a heroic way for fighting the justice system and showing courage, strength and ability to resist laws through making his own lifestyle, with separate beliefs, attitudes and values. He was a friend of the poor, kind to women and children, and an enemy of the rich. He was forced into crime by the harsh harassments of the authorities. He said to have died bravely against the more powerful forces of the law. He has grown to be an admired infamous figure for the way he stood up to authority and his larrikin ways.

Hero of the southern campaign in the American Revolution, who was known for his mastery of the small-unit tactics necessary for effective guerrilla warfare.

Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and politician, became a folk hero during his own lifetime. Crockett grew up on the frontier and later used his knowledge of it in his political campaigns. Although he is known chiefly as a hunter and a soldier, Crockett also worked for land for settlers, relief for people in debt, and an expanded banking system for Tennessee.

He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of women's rights. He became a trusted advisor to Abraham Lincoln, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C., and Minister-General to the Republic of Haiti”.

Born on the 26th of February, 1732, Francis Marion was born on his parents’ plantation in Berkley, South Carolina. He lived on this plantation for about 5 or 6 years of his life, before moving to a new estate around Georgetown, South Carolina. A great adventure in his life began when he was 15, when he boarded a ship along with some crewman sailing to the West Indies. On the way back, a whale hit the

William Tecumseh Sherman was a great Union general fighting in the Civil War. His major feat during the war was his campaign through the South. He started in Chattanooga, Tennessee and ended in Savannah, Georgia. His March used psychological warfare to make southerners lose support for the Southern cause by bringing the war to their front-doors. This showing of how cruel the war really was is said to have ended the war more quickly.

He was known as A Living Legend, and One of the most famous Native American Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, he was not only believed to be a great leader, but was also believed to have supernatural powers, including ability to heal the sick slow time, avoid bullets and bring on rain storms. He was born in Sonora, Mexico in the year of June 16,

America’s greatest hero because of his involvement in saving the Union and the emancipator of

Christopher Columbus was born in the port city of Genoa, Italy. Although scholars are unsure sure of his exact date of birth, history generally recognizes that his birth took place between August 25 and October 31, 1451. Columbus was born to an affluent wool weaving family, his father Domenico Colombo, Colombo is the Italian spelling of Columbus, and his mother Suzanna Fontanarossa. He was the eldest of five children,

was a loyal communist who sacrificed his own life so his people could have a

He was one of the only people who fought violence with non-violence to bring freedom to a country. Being from Sri Lanka, I have heard a great deal about his leadership and his movements to fight against different unfair taxations put forth by the British on the Indian people because at that time India was a British colony. He fought silently and kept moving towards his ultimate end goal irrespective of what got in his way and he fought it all with non-violence.