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te that delighted him; the men would certainly rise on their officers; the battery on Sullivan's Island would not discharge two rounds. This opinion was spread through the fleet, and became the belief of every sailor on board. With or without Clinton's aid the commodore was persuaded that his well drilled seamen and marines could take and keep possession of the fort, till Clinton should send as many troops as he might think proper, who might enter the fort in the same way. One day Captain Lempriere, the same who in the former year had, with daring enterprise, taken more than a hundred barrels of powder from a vessel at anchor off St. Augustine, was walking with Moultrie on the platform, and looking at the British shipsof-war, all of which had already come over the bar, addressed him: Well, Colonel, what do you think of it now? We shall beat them, said Moultrie. The men-of-war, rejoined the captain, will knock your fort down in half an hour. Then, said Moultrie, we will lie beh