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:

    “When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “His berd as any sowe or fox was reed,
    And therto brood, as though it were a spade.
    Upon the cop right of his nose he hade
    A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys
    Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys.
    His nosethirles blake were and wyde.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)