Francis Marion, brigadier general of South Carolina militia during the American Revolution, was one of the partisan leaders who kept the war alive during the British occupation of the state. His elusive disappearances after surprise attacks against superior forces harassed and demoralized the enemy, earning him the name "Swamp Fox." He died Feb. 27, 1795, in his 63rd year and was buried at Belle Isle Plantation, home of his brother Gabriel. His own plantation, Pond Bluff, was 15 miles up river and is now under Lake Marion. He was born in South Carolina, the descendant of French Huguenot emigrants, though the exact date and place of his birth are unknown.