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:

    “The woman may serve as a vehicle for the rapist expressing his rage against a world that gives him pain—because he is poor, or oppressed, or mad, or simply human. Then what of her? We have waded in the swamp of compassion for him long enough.”
    —Robin Morgan (b. 1941)

    “That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)