Swamp Fox was a nickname of various Americans:
- Francis Marion, American Revolution leader
- Alvin Dark, baseball player and manager
- M. Jeff Thompson, a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War known as "Swamp Fox of the Confederacy"
- John Jackson Dickison, a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
Swamp Fox can also refer to:
- The Swamp Fox (TV series), a 1950s television series regarding Francis Marion produced by Walt Disney and starring Leslie Nielsen
- Swamp Foxes, the nickname for the representative team of the Thames Valley Rugby Football Union, one of several regional governing bodies for rugby union in the North Island of New Zealand.
Famous quotes containing the words swamp and/or fox:
“We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller’s horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, “I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom.” “So it has,” answered the latter, “but you have not got half way to it yet.” So it is with the bogs and quicksands of society; but he is an old boy that knows it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter’s walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)