. The new eclectic history of the United States . gged height surrounded on three sides by the river, and seized the wounded in theattack, he was carried atthe head of the storm-I ing party. Six hundredBritish were either killedor captured. As Wash-ington could not spare aforce sufficient to hold thefort, the stores were allremoved and the worksdestroyed. At PaulusHook, Major Lee,3 called Light-Horse whatis now JerseyCity, almost under theguns of the British inNew York. 283. The infant Navy ofthe United States made upin boldness and swiftnessof movement what it lacke
. The new eclectic history of the United States . gged height surrounded on three sides by the river, and seized the wounded in theattack, he was carried atthe head of the storm-I ing party. Six hundredBritish were either killedor captured. As Wash-ington could not spare aforce sufficient to hold thefort, the stores were allremoved and the worksdestroyed. At PaulusHook, Major Lee,3 called Light-Horse whatis now JerseyCity, almost under theguns of the British inNew York. 283. The infant Navy ofthe United States made upin boldness and swiftnessof movement what it lackedin size, even entering the Britishharbors in the West Indies, burning ships at the wharves, andcarrying off powder and other stores. A swarm of privateers,commissioned by Congress, captured in three years five hundredEnglish vessels. Captain Paul Jones,4 on the Bon HommeRichard, is said to have taken sixteen prizes in six of his most famous sea-fights took place at night with theBritish frigate Serapis. The two vessels were hooked to-. Aug., 1779 Richard and Serapi OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTH. 171 gether, and both were on fire many times during their two-hours combat. So desperate was the fight that the Serapissurrendered just as the Richard was about to sink. Nextmorning Jones had barely time to remove his men to the capt-ured vessel, which he sailed into a Dutch port. 284. Winter at Morristown,—The winter of 1779-80 was thecoldest in the eighteenth century, and Washingtons army atMorristown suffered, if possible, more than it had two yearsbefore at Valley Forge. The longer the war lasted, the morebare of all supplies the country became. Bands of British andTories ravaged all the coasts, entering the James, Potomac,Hudson, and Connecticut rivers, and burning houses, barns,and boats. 285. Fall of Charleston.—During the autumn the French fleetof DEstaing had joined with the land forces under GeneralLincoln in attempting to retake Savannah, but without this
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