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offended Perry so much that he requested the Secretary of War to re- 
move him to some other station as “ he could not serve longer under an 
officer who had been so totally regardless of his feelings.” 
On the 28th Barclay was obliged to abandon the blockade by stress 
of weather and lack of provisions, although he had perceived that the 
Americans had “everything near ready for hauling their vessels 
over the bar. When this is done,’ he admitted, “we must retire to 
Amherstburg.”* The frequently repeated tale that he stated that he 
expected to find the enemy fast on the bar on his return must be dis- 
missed as purely fictitious. On the contrary, he appears to have aban- 
doned all hope of detaining them in that port, and informed General De 
Rottenburg that as soon as the sailors he still expected should arrive he 
would proceed to join General Procter, whom he hoped to find at San- 
dusky Bay, where he intended to land his soldiers, and then go on to 
Amherstburg to equip the Deéroz¢t. Finding that no seamen were on 
the march to join him, he again stood across the lake towards Erie on 
August 5th, and discovering that the American squadron was out of the 
harbour, bore away for Amherstburg. 
On the following day Perry crossed the lake to Long Point with eight 
vessels, and returned to Erie, where he was joined on the 9th by Captain 
J. D. Elliott with eight officers and a hundred seamen from Lake Ontario. 
Chauncey, it appears, was able to supply Perry from time to time with 
drafts of men without weakening his force materially, while Yeo was 
unable to do anything for Barclay without risking the loss of his 
squadron. 
Writing to Prevost on August 9th, Procter announced his repulse at 
Sandusky, and added, “ The enemy’s vessels are out of Presqu’Isle har- 
bour, and so decidedly stronger than ours that Captain Barclay has been 
necessitated to return to Amherstburg with all haste to get the new 
vessel ready for sea, which she will be in eight or ten days, and then 
only want hands. Whatever may happen to be regretted may be fairly 
attributed to the delays in sending here the force your Excellency 
directed should be sent. Had it been sent at once, it could have been 
used to the greatest advantage, but it arrived in such small portions, and 
with such delays, that the Siesnle ibRiles have been lost. 
You will probably hear of the enemy’s landing shortly at Long Point 
whence they may gain the rear of the Centre Division, and also affect 
my supplies. An hundred and fifty sailors would have effectually obvi- 
ated this evil.”+ 
*Can. Arch., C. 679, p. 517. 
t‘* Canadian Archives,”’ C. 679, p. 371. 
