by a lucky slant of wind, fetched “nearly into the middle of the rebel half-moon, where she anchored with a spring on her cable.”  The position was one of honorable distinction, but likewise of great exposure.  Her first officer lost an arm; her captain, Lieutenant Dacres, was so severely wounded that he was about to be thrown overboard as dead; and Pellew, thus left without a superior, fought the vessel through the engagement.  When signal was at last made to withdraw, the Carleton was able to do so only by help of the gunboats, which towed her out of fire.  On the other hand, Arnold’s flag-ship, the schooner Royal Savage, which had fought in advance of her consorts and under canvas, fell to leeward, and came there under the distant fire of the Inflexible, by which she was badly crippled.  She then was run ashore on the southern point of the island, where she fell momentarily into the hands of the British, who turned her guns on her former friends.  Later in the day, it seeming probable that she might be retaken, she was set on fire and burned to the water’s edge.  Thus abandoned, she sank to the bottom, where her hull rests to this day.  During the recent summer of 1901 some gun-carriages have been recovered from her, after lying for a century and a quarter beneath the surface of the lake.

Pellew’s personal activity and strength enabled his gallantry to show to particular advantage in this sanguinary contest.  When the Carleton, in her attempt to withdraw, hung in stays under the island, her decks swept by the bullets of the riflemen on shore, it was he who sprang out on the bowsprit to bear the jib over to windward.  When the tow-rope was cut by a shot, it was Pellew again who exposed his person for the safety of the vessel.  His two seniors being forced by their wounds to leave the schooner, he succeeded to the command, in which he was afterwards confirmed.  In this sharp affair the Carleton lost eight killed and six wounded,—­about half her crew,—­and had two feet of water in her hold when she anchored out of range.

Towards evening the Inflexible succeeded in getting within point-blank range of the American flotilla, “when five broadsides,” wrote Douglas, “silenced their whole line;” a sufficient testimony to the superiority of her concentrated battery over the dispersed force of all her numerous petty antagonists.  The British then anchored to the southward of Arnold’s little force; but that active and enterprising officer succeeded in stealing during the night between the enemy and the western shore, and retired towards Crown Point.  The chase to windward continued during the next day, but a favorable shift of wind, to the north, reached the British first, and enabled them to close.  Arnold again behaved with the extraordinary bravery and admirable conduct which distinguished him in battle.  Sending on the bulk of the squadron, he took the rear with two galleys, covering the retreat.  Fighting like a