"The Devil himself couldn't catch this Swamp Fox!" So spoke Lieutenant Colonel Tarleton of the British Dragoons after the sly and crafty American General, Francis Marion, escaped from still another British trap. Marion, the man who continued to fight the Revolution in South Carolina when all organized opposition against the Crown had been crushed, blazes through this action-packed novel with a gusto that young readers are sure to enjoy.

As seen through the eyes of Dade Lawliss, known as "the young Swamp Fox," whose parents met death at the hands of the King's men, this is a tense and blood-chilling yarn of the ambushes, rugged marches and battles fought in the Black and Santee River sections of South Carolina. Sustained by the hope of revenge against his parents' killers, young Dade lashed out against the British with bitter fury. How he and his companions followed the brilliant Marion into scores of bloody skirmishes against superior forces, how they sallied out of their swamp-protected hide-outs to harass Tory plantations and British strong points, how they suffered on an English prison ship in Georgetown Harbor, makes this a vivid picture of a little-known but vital phase of the American Revolution.

Overflowing with the excitement and thunder of eighteenth-century battles, the intrigue of guerrilla warfare, Island Fortress is history at its gripping best and a tribute to the men who won for America her independence.

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