Young folks' history of the United States . on on a steep hill, by making his men charge upthe hill in two columns, with fixed bayonets, and with-out firing a gun. At other times the Americans werebeaten, as when Sir Henry Clinton besieged and tookCharleston, S. C. The battle of Monmouth (June 28,1778) was first a defeat for the Americans, and then avictory, Lees troops being driven back and then ralliedby Washington. There were cruel massacres, as whenin 1778 a band of Tories (or American loyalists)employed the service of Indians to murder men,women, and children at Wyoming, Penn. Then therew
Young folks' history of the United States . on on a steep hill, by making his men charge upthe hill in two columns, with fixed bayonets, and with-out firing a gun. At other times the Americans werebeaten, as when Sir Henry Clinton besieged and tookCharleston, S. C. The battle of Monmouth (June 28,1778) was first a defeat for the Americans, and then avictory, Lees troops being driven back and then ralliedby Washington. There were cruel massacres, as whenin 1778 a band of Tories (or American loyalists)employed the service of Indians to murder men,women, and children at Wyoming, Penn. Then therewere sea-fights, in the course of which Paul Jones 208 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. was made famous by one contest between his ship,the Bonhomme Richard, and the British frigate Serapis. The ships were lashed side by side ; andthey fought for three hours, chiefly from the rigging andtops, both ships taking fire again and again, until theBritish vessel yielded. This was in 1779. Then therewere very daring deeds in the way of what is called par. THE BONHOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS. Marlon and tisan Warfare, especially by Marion and Sumter, in theforests of South Carolina. These brave men threadedthe woods by paths known only to themselves, andmade long journeys at night to attack the various postsof the British troops, who then held Charleston and itsneighborhood. Marion was called the Swamp-Fox; andthe British officers complained of him for not coming THE REMAINDER OF THE WAR. 209 out into the open field to fight like an officer and agentleman. But he proved just as brave in the openfield, at the battle of Eutaw Springs, S. C. (1780). Greene commanded the Americans in thisfight, defeating the British severely: and Greenes wholecampaign in the South was so successful, that he after-ward ranked second only to Washington as a general. There was one great act of treason committed during Arnoldsthe war by one of the most distinguished officers ofthe American army, — Gen. Be
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