_Trumbull_ (28), taken by British fleet, near Cape Henry 1778 _Virginia_ (28), taken by British fleet, near Cape Henry, 1778 _Warren_ (32), burned in the Penobscot, by the Americans 1779 _Washington_ (32), destroyed by the British, in the Delaware 1778 Footnote 8: Never went to sea. NOTE.—John Paul, who took the name of John Paul Jones through gratitude to a citizen of North Carolina who assisted him in securing a naval commission (noticed on page 60 of the text), distinguished himself upon the British coast, and in his capture of the British ship _Serapis_, Sept. 23, 1779. His own ship, the _Bon Homme Richard_, was fitted out in France, by the aid of Benjamin Franklin, to war against British commerce. Franklin, in the issue of his “Almanack,” with shrewd business and moral maxims at the bottoms of the pages, used the nom-de-plume, “Poor Richard.” It was graceful in John Paul to name the ship Richard, in Franklin’s honor, with a complimentary prefix. Of the later navy, that of 1812, the _Brandywine_ (44), named after the battle of that name, was placed at the service of Lafayette when he visited America in 1825. (See note at end of Chapter XVIII., concerning Lafayette as first appearing in that battle.) APPENDIX C. COMPARISONS WITH LATER WARS. The analogies between the Revolutionary War and later American wars are noticed in the Preface. Some special points should be noted for further comparisons. The _field_ casualties, including killed and wounded, in twenty-six of the principal engagements of the Revolution, do not greatly exceed 9,000; but other causes kept the army upon a very unsatisfactory basis in respect of numbers as well as efficiency. Operations in Canada, early in the war, irrespective of the expeditions of Montgomery and Arnold, cost, through a visitation of small-pox, 5,000 lives in sixty days. (Page 88.) At the April muster of the army in 1776, only 8,303, out of a total of 10,235, were fit for duty. (Page 87.) At the August muster, 1776, 3,678 were reported as sick, either present or on furlough, out of a total of 17,225. (Pages 101, 102.) At the September muster, 1776, less than 20,000 were reported as fit for duty (page 114), out of a total of 27,000 (page 103). At the Battle of Trenton, Christmas night, 1776, more than 1,000 out of a force of 2,400 were disabled by frost during the brief march and engagement which gave such fresh vigor to the cause of American Independence. (Page 142.) At the October muster of the same year, out of a total of 25,735, the large number of 8,075 was reported as sick, or on furlough. (Page 122.)