He had no cannon. He could not build forts.
He could not stay long in one place, for fear the
British should come with a strong army and take
him. He and his men' hid in the dark woods.
Sometimes he changed his hiding place suddenly.
Even his own friends had hard work to find him.
From the dark woods he would come out sud-
denly. He would attack some party of British
soldiers. When the battle was over, he would go
back to the woods again.
When the British sent a strong army to catch
him, he could not be found. But soon he would
be fighting the British in some new place. He
was always playing hide and seek.
The British called him the Swamp Fox. That
was because he was so hard to catch. They could not
conquer the country until they could catch Marion.
And they never could catch the Swamp Fox.
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At one time Marion came out of the woods to
take a little British fort. This fort was on the top
of a high mound. It was one of the mounds built
a long time ago by the Indians.
Marion put his men all round the fort, so that
the men in the fort could not get out to get water.
He thought that they would have to give
up. But the men in the fort dug a well
inside the fort. Then Marion had to '^vs
think of another plan.
Marion's men went to the
woods and cut down stout
poles. They got a great many
poles. When night came, they
laid a row of poles along-side
one another on the ground.
