| 词汇 | swamp fox |
| 词源 | Swamp Fox. General Francis Marion (ca. 1732–95), one of America’s first war heroes, hid with his men in the South Carolina swamps whenever he encountered formidable Brit- ish forces during the American Revolution. There he contin- ued practicing the guerrilla warfare for which he became fa- mous and earned the name Swamp Fox history remembers him by. |
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