Swamp Fox

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:

    “To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
    With the slow smokeless burning of decay.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace,
    The fox in the forest, all had their desire,
    As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.”
    —Ruth Pitter (b. 1897)