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Quilted themselves with the frmness and trie,
discipline of veterans. Though but ra,
militia, and opposed to the flower of the En-
glish navy-that arm of war upon which
England has ever depended for military fam
and support, yet for all this, did their patri
otism and their determined resistance bea
them safely and with. honor through tn.
bloody contest and some idea may he gath
cred Of their bravery when we recollect thai
of the two fifty-gun ships, the Bristol and th'
Experiment, the former lost forty-four mer
killed and thirty wounded, and the latte
fifty-seven killed and as many wounded-tht
commodore himself, Sir Peter Parker, losing
an arm. The men on board of the smaller
vessels, however, suffered less. from the fa.l
that the FIRE of the fort was directed chiefly
to the Bristol and the Experiment. The
vessels themselves were considerably injured
and one Of them, the Acteon, ran aground
and was subsequently burnt.
1t was about the middle Of the action, du-
ring which the cannonading had been severe
Oh both sides, and without any apparent di-
intuition of either, that twenty-six pound
shot struck the flag staff of the fort, which
had been an old mast of a ship, telling it, and
then glancing off obliquely struck the sand
within few feet of where, but short time
previous, Moultrie with his staff had been
standing.
"By heavens !" exclaimed Moultrie, "our
colors are down." and without appearing to
notice their escape, he sprang upon pile of
balls to watch the descent of the flag, which
came down with the remainder of the staff
upon the, edge Of the parapet, and then bal
ancing moment disappeared on the outside
of the fort. 1t was 3ust at this moment that
Scargent Jasper, observing the fall of the col
ors, sprang to the parapet from among the
officers we have mentioned, and Instantly
ieaped to the ground on the outside Of the
fortress, and deliberately walked the whole
length Of the fort the extreme left wing where
the flag had fallen, and seizing it with his left
hand, while with his right hand he quickly
detached it from its somewhat bulky stand
ard, and at the same time called Justify to
Captain Horny, who happened to be in com
manded Of his eighteen-pounder in this wing,
to give him sponge staff.
Duck, quick, for the love Of HEAVIER" !"
cried the intrepid Jasper; for the balls are
av;no around mo ike hail stones and in NO
vsrv esoreealle nrox;m;tvn
"Ay, ay," shouted Horny, in reply, as he
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Inc ntlepld Jasper was a.'eI.asu se"a.asJ s..'0S
ior 81 n's I orayely ~ ,cs psessn'da,or y sM
rom the panosUt uoselnol r. nu'leuge, WY,
n the presence q numeIuus onceI, :eMoseu -
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81 the goth o. June, and asa token ot respect
and esteem for his bravery. !. vaa 81 :4
The .snmunition Of the fort was now nearly
c,,xkansfed. and fears we're entertained as to
the result II the contest, when Marion, with
the readiness which always characterized him
in any emergency, taking small body o.
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