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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 12: (search)
ch brig of twelve guns. They ranged the western coast of Ireland, turned Scotland, and, cruising off Flamborough Head, descried the British merchant fleet from the Baltic under the convoy of the Serapis of forty-four guns, and the Countess of Scarborough of twenty guns. An hour after sunset, on the twenty-third of September, the Serapis, having a vast superiority in Sept. 23. strength, engaged the Poor Richard. With marvellous hardihood Paul Jones, after suffering exceedingly in a contesterapis struck its flag. Jones raised his pendant on the captured frigate, and the next day had but time to transfer to it his wounded men and his crew before the Poor Richard went down. The French frigate engaged and captured the Countess of Scarborough. The Alliance, which from a distance had raked the Serapis during the action, not without injuring the Poor Richard as well, had not a man injured. On the fourth of October, the squadron entered the Texel with its Oct. 4. prizes. On hear