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the French harbors, bays and creeks; the French harbors and towns, stripped of their garrisons by necessities of distant wars, were left with no other defence than their fortifications and militia, and yet, though they were frequently attacked, and the most desperate efforts made to effect a permanent lodgment, they escaped unharmed during the entire contest. The history of naval attacks on our own forts in the wars of the Revolution and of 1812 teaches us the same lesson. In 1776 Sir Peter Parker, with nine vessels, carrying two hundred and seventy guns, was repulsed by Fort Moultrie, armed with only twenty-six guns, and garrisoned by three hundred and seventy-five regulars and a few militia. The British were entirely defeated, and lost, in killed and wounded, two hundred and five men, while the same loss in the forts was only thirty-two General Moultrie said that only thirty rounds from the battery were fired, and the want of powder alone prevented the Americans from destroyin