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:

    “Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Commit a crime and the world is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)