Long swords were then in fashion, but he continued to wear the small cut and thrust of the second regiment.
Such a weapon better suited his inferior physique, and necessarily lessened the motives to personal adventure .-- The British visitor was a young man who had never seen Marion.

The great generals whom he was accustomed to see, were great of limb, portly, and huge of proportion.

Such was Cornwallis, and others of the British army.
Such, too, was the case among the Americans.

The average weight of these opposing generals, during that war, is stated at more than two hundred pounds.

The successes of Marion must naturally have led our young Englishman to look for something in his physique even above this average, and verging on the gigantic.