Young people's history of the American Revolution . PAUL JONES CAPTURING THE SERAPH(From a painting by Chappel) GREENES WORK IN THE SOUTH 343 as that of the other, and at last, unable to drive the red-coats, the Americans withdrew to the nearest place wherewater could be had, and the British declared that thebattle was theirs. In one sense this was true, for they hadnot been driven from the field, but in killed, wounded, andprisoners they had lost more than eleven hundred men,while the loss of the Americans was only about half thatnumber. At all events, on the following day the redcoatshastene
Young people's history of the American Revolution . PAUL JONES CAPTURING THE SERAPH(From a painting by Chappel) GREENES WORK IN THE SOUTH 343 as that of the other, and at last, unable to drive the red-coats, the Americans withdrew to the nearest place wherewater could be had, and the British declared that thebattle was theirs. In one sense this was true, for they hadnot been driven from the field, but in killed, wounded, andprisoners they had lost more than eleven hundred men,while the loss of the Americans was only about half thatnumber. At all events, on the following day the redcoatshastened back to Charleston, and their anger was sharedby all their Tory sympathizers. Indeed, the hatred of theTories and Whigs was now fearfully intense, and manywere the evil deeds they inflicted upon one another. One of the most celebrated of these deeds was the hang-ing of Colonel Isaac Hayne, a man respected by all thepeople of the state. He had been made a prisoner by theBritish at the siege of Charleston (he was then serving asa private in the ra
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