Peter Horry was placed in advance at the swamp, while the general with the cavalry, and remainder of the brigade, Amounting to about four hundred men, lay in reserve.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
Watson with a British regiment, and Harrison's regiment of tories, Amounting in the whole to more than five hundred men, was ordered to march down the Santee, towards Snow's island; and he commenced his expedition from Fort Watson about the first of March.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
It was there, nevertheless, almost Amounting to an obsession.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson