1 M-mniff .,/ i;, ,v riil Jl<„lh, 51. Ibiil.

^[HaU'sl lllfUnij nf the Ciril ll'.ir i,i America, i., l.sfi.

* We have tiikeri this iiiiiiuto description of the .'\si<aiilt on the enemy's ships from Captnin Hall's Huitonj nf the CU-il War in Ameria, i., 18(>, 187, because it is so clearly stated, and because it is the work of an oIK- cer of the Royal .\rniy, and, therefore, is not likely to have been overstated.

' Gordon's //Wor;/ of the American Recolntion, ii.,30.').

* Memoirs of General Heath, 54.

" said that one of the tenders was deserted by her " crew, for a time ;" that the tender which was grappled by Captain Thomas was burned to the water's edge and was towed to the shore, by the Americans," by whom one iron six-pound gun, two three-pounders, one two-pounder, ten swivels, a caboose and apron, some gun-barrels, cutla.>-ses, grapplings, chains, etc., were taken from the wreck ; and that the gallant crews of the fireships sustained neither loss nor injury, exee|)t in the instance of one man, who, in setting fire to his vessel, was considerably burned in his face, hands, etc., and in that of Captain Thomas, who, it was feared, perished in the attempt to fasten his vessel to the tender which it destroyed or in making his escape, by swimming, as he was not subseiiuently heard of. As (Jeneral Washington stated in the letter from which we derive the information, when writing of him, " his bravery entitled him to a " better fate." "