Swamp Fox

Swamp Fox

"Swamp Fox" was a nickname of various Americans:

* Francis Marion, Revolutionary War leader
* Alvin Dark, baseball player and manager
* M. Jeff Thompson, Confederate general known as "Swamp Fox of the Confederacy"
* The Swamp Fox (TV series), a 1950s television series produced by Walt Disney and starring Leslie Nielsen

"Swamp Foxes" is also 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.


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