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 296 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS Home." (Stille, 343.) In 1809, his son, Colonel Isaac Wayne, removed the body to the family buryinfj-jrround at St. David's Church, Radnor, Penn., where, on July 4th of the same year, the Society of the Cincinnati erected a monument in his honor. So lived, so died, Anthony Wayne ; gentleman, soldier, statesman, patriot. "Mad," "Dandy," "Black Snake," "Tornado." Angry with traitors Neat- Courageous Irresistible. None can study his life without feeling the nobleness of his character. Courtly in manners, honorable to a degree, high in aspirations, unselfishly for country, magnanimous in victory, loyal to authority, affectionate to family, pure in morality, and earnest for the right, Anthony Wayne's life is a bright example and legacy to the American youth of all times. FRANCIS MARION (i 732-1 795) F' 'RANCis Marion, the partisan general of South Carolina, was of Huguenot de- scent, the first American settlers of the name being Benjamin Marion and Judith Balnet, his wife, who came from France in 1690, and established themselves in a plantation on one of the tributaries of the Cooper River, near Charleston. Gabriel, the son of Benjamin, married Esther Cordes. These were the parents of Francis Marion. He was born, it would appear, in St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, probably in 1732. His early life was passed, till his twenty- seventh year, in agricultural pursuits, when we first hear of him in connection with mil- itary matters in the period of the old French war. He took the field with Moultrie, and fought gallantly by the side of that officer in the Cherokee country against the savages at the battle of Etchoee. He then returned to his farm, near Eutaw Springs, ripening for the work of the Revolution, which found hirh at the height of manhood, at the age of forty-three. The people of his district relied upon his understanding, for we find them send-