Francis Marion was the most famous partisan fighter, which means he fought using guerrilla warfare. According to the New World Encyclopedia, he and his men adopted many tactics used by the Indians he fought against, and as a result Marion is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare ("New World Encyclopedia"). An example of these tactics would be to camouflage oneself in heavy brush and ambush or surprise your enemy and then living on the enemy, depending on him for his arms, ammunition, camp, equipage, horses, and forage ("Watchman and Southron"). The effects of these tactics lead him and his men to win Battle of Half Way Swamp and The Battle of Nelson's Ferry, just two of the battles in which he fought. Think Quest says, “Along with other Patriots, Francis Marion practiced guerrilla warfare in North Carolina. He would surprise the British, strike quick, and go hide just as fast. Because of this and the fact that he knew the terrain well, Marion was called "the Swamp Fox." As well, Marion and his band of partisan militia staged a series of hit and run raids for the next year. This was in the face of overwhelming odds that consisted of disrupting Cornwallis's communications and supply lines, taking out scouts and foraging parties, and preventing the loyalist from participating in the battle of Kings Mountain ("ORACLE ThinkQuest"). Marion was engaged in two skirmishes of considerable dimensions, in one of which he defeated a strong force of Tories at the Black Mingo River; in the other he routed and dispersed a detachment of regulars under Colonel Tynes at Tarcote. On one occasion he led Tarleton a long and fruitless chase, until that commander is said to have exclaimed, “Come, boys, let us go back and find the game-cock [Sumter]; as for this damn swamp-fox, the devil himself could not catch him."