The others, filled with dead and wounded, drifted ashore.
[Illustration: BRITISH ATTACK ON SULLIVAN ISLAND.] (_Our Last Naval Engagement with England_.) In this brief but terrific struggle there were only two Americans killed and seven wounded, while the enemy acknowledged a loss of thirty-four killed and eighty-six wounded, the former including the leader of the expedition.
Admiral Cochrane was so incensed by the rough treatment his men had received that he determined to throw neutrality to the winds and destroy the defiant privateer.

Nothing more was attempted that evening, but in the morning the _Carnation_ advanced to the attack of the _General Armstrong_.

This gave the latter a chance to bring its Long Tom into play, and it was served with such unerring accuracy that not a shot missed.

Before the brig could come to close quarters she was so crippled that she was obliged to withdraw.
The three ships now closed in.

It would have been folly to fight them.
So Captain Reid scuttled his ship, lowered his boats and rowed ashore.
The enemy were disposed to follow him thither, but he and his men took refuge in an old stone fortress and dared the Englishmen to do so.