With a hollow groan, he fell dying on the deck of the ship he had so gallantly defended, while his men, borne back by the determined rush of the Rangers, after a feeble resistance, threw down their arms, crying, "Quarter, quarter!" All this time the guns of that ship had been firing, one or two of them depressed by Simpson's orders so as to pierce the hull below the water-line, the rest sending their heavy shot ripping and tearing through the length of the Juno, which was unable to bring a single gun to bear in reply.
"Do you strike ?" called Jones, from the break of the poop, his men massed behind him for a rush through the gangways, to one or two of the officers who were stationed there.
"Yes, yes, God help us," cried a wounded officer; "what else can we do ?" "Where's your captain ?" "Dead, sir," answered one of the seamen who had been seized by the boarders.

"Him you killed when you boarded." "Poor fellow, he was a brave man, and fought his ship well." "Captain, the frigate is bearing down upon us!" cried one of the Ranger's men.
"Ay, ay.

Well, gentlemen, we cannot take possession, so we will have to leave you to your consort," he said to the British officers.

"Give the captain of the Acasta the compliments of Captain John Paul Jones, of the American Continental ship Ranger, and say that he will find me in the British Channel.

Thank him for our entertainment to-night," he said, bowing courteously, and then--"Back to the ship, all you Rangers .-- Let that man's sword alone, sirrah! He used it well, let it remain with him on his own ship; but first haul down and bring the Juno's flag with us." The men hastily scrambled over the rails to their own ship, the grapnels were cut loose, and none too soon the ship slowly gathered way and slipped by the stern of the Juno, whose mizzenmast fell a moment after, and she lay rolling, a ghastly shattered hulk on the waters, fire breaking out forward.
The frigate, coming down rapidly on the starboard tack, luffed up into the wind, and fired a broadside at the rapidly disappearing Ranger, which, however, did no harm, and was only answered by a musket-shot in contempt, and then she ranged down beside her battered and shattered consort.