. Bill Nye's history of the United States. rotten, was allowed to godown. This was especially the case in the fightbetween the Richard and the Serapis, September 23- 1779- In 1780 the war was renewed in South Caro-lina. Charleston, after a forty days siege, wasforced to surrender. Gates now took charge ofthe South, and also gave a sprinting exhibition atCamden, where he was almost wiped off the faceof the earth. He had only two troops left at theclose of the battle, and they could not keep upwith Gates in the retreat. This battle and theretreat overheated Gates and sowed the seeds ofheart-dise
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. rotten, was allowed to godown. This was especially the case in the fightbetween the Richard and the Serapis, September 23- 1779- In 1780 the war was renewed in South Caro-lina. Charleston, after a forty days siege, wasforced to surrender. Gates now took charge ofthe South, and also gave a sprinting exhibition atCamden, where he was almost wiped off the faceof the earth. He had only two troops left at theclose of the battle, and they could not keep upwith Gates in the retreat. This battle and theretreat overheated Gates and sowed the seeds ofheart-disease, from which he never should have chosen a more peaceful life, suchas the hen-traffic, or the growth of asparagus forthe market. Benedict Arnold has been severely reproachedin history, but he was a brave soldier, and possiblyserving under Gates, who jealously kept him inthe background, had a good deal to do with thelittle European dicker which so darkened his bril-liant career as a soldier. THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION. 183. ARNOLD S RECEPTION IN ENGLAND. Unhappy man! Hewas not well received inEngland, and, though abrilliant man, was forced to sit in a corner evening after evening and hearthe English tell his humorous stories as their own. The Carolinas were full of Tories, and oppo-sition to English rule was practically abandoned inthe South for the time, with the exception of thatmade in a desultory swamp-warfare by the parti-san bands with such leaders as Marion, Sumter,and Pickens. Two hundred thousand dollars of Continentalmoney was the sum now out. Forty dollars of itwould buy one dollars w^orth of groceries ; butthe grocer had to know the customer pretty well,and even then it was more to accommodate thananything else that he sold at that price. The British flooded the country with a counter-feit that was rather better-looking than the gen-uine : so that by the time a man had paid six 184 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. hundred dollars for a pair of boots, an
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