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Colonel Thomas ‘Burnfoot’ Brown

East Florida Rangers. Photo care of the Ledger File Photo.

Colonel Thomas Brown was a fierce partisan fighter. An able leader, he was always in the thick of battle, deploying his men skillfully and encouraging them to fight on. Passionate to the cause, he would have been at the forefront of America’s Revolutionary heroes, had he been a patriot; but he was not. Brown was …