FOOTNOTES
[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.”