Many yielded to these arguments, with the simple hope of escape from the horrors by which they were surrounded.

When arts and arguments failed to overcome the inflexibility of these wretched prisoners, compulsion was resorted to, and hundreds were forced from their country, shipped to Jamaica, and there made to serve in British regiments.* Citizens of distinction, who, by their counsel or presence, opposed their influence over the prisoners, or proved themselves superior to their temptations, were torn from their homes without warning, and incarcerated in their floating dungeons.

Nothing was forborne, in the shape of pitiless and pitiful persecution, to break the spirits, subdue the strength, and mock and mortify the hopes, alike, of citizen and captive.
* Moultrie's Memoirs, Vol.

2, 'Correspondence' .-- With those who kept the field the proceedings were more summary, if not more severe.

The fall of Charleston seems necessarily to have involved the safety of the country from the Savannah to the Pedee.