[1]This was the first flag of the Revolution—a pine tree with a rattlesnake under it, bearing the bold motto, “Don’t tread on me.” [2]The songs in this story are not original. [3]Meaning his appointment to command the American ships in foreign waters. [4]This incident is historically true. [5]Cooper mentions the peculiar tenderness of Dale’s tone, when, in his latter days, he spoke of his old captain as “Paul.”
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