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long guns and occasionally a broadside. When finally the Detrozt 
drifted astern silent and disabled, the Caledonza passed her to leeward 
and the Vzagara coming forward with the freshening wind went to wind- 
ward of her and sent a boat on board for a supply of round shot. At 
this Captain Perry determined to abandon his ship and transfer his flag 
to the Véagara, which was then nearly abreast of her at a distance which 
was variously estimated from thirty yards to half a mile, but probably 
did not exceed three or four hundred yards. Telling his wounded first- 
lieutenant, Mr. Yarnall, that he would leave him to surrender the ship 
he entered a boat and reached the Wzagara in safety. When he came 
on deck he informed Captain Elliott that his own vessel was quite 
disabled, complained that he had been sacrificed and that the conduct 
of the schooners in keeping so far away had lost the battle. He does 
not appear to have accused Elliott at that time of any misconduct and 
the latter cordially volunteered to carry orders to the laggard vessels. 
The motto flag of the Lawrence had been either shot away or hauled 
down and dropped overboard, where it was found floating by Purser 
McGrath who commanded the boat from the Vzagara, and her colours 
were struck soon after Perry's departure, when it is said by one account 
only nine, and by others fourteen or eighteen unwounded men remained 
on board. 
Finding that the Vzagara had received comparatively little injury, 
Perry hoisted the signal for close action and bore down directly for the 
centre of the British squadron, which was then huddled in a disorderly 
group about their flagship. When his ship gained the weather bow of the — 
Detrott, he fired a broadside, and Captain Barclay, who had already 
received a severe contusion on the hip, was stretched senseless on the 
deck by a shot which tore away his remaining arm and part of his 
shoulder blade. His hurt was supposed to be mortal and he was carried 
below. First-Lieutenant Garland had been mortally wounded early in 
the day, and Second-Lieutenant George Inglis took Barclay’s place on the 
quarterdeck. As most of the larboard guns were disabled he tried to 
wear ship to avoid being raked and to bring the other broadside to bear, 
but the Queen Charlotte running up to leeward at that moment, the two 
ships fell foul and remained for» some time unable to reply to the 
raking fire of the Niagara with a single gun. Perry’s ship then passed 
through the British squadron firing her port broadside into the Chzppewa, 
Little Belt and Lady Prevost, and her starboard guns into the entangled 
Detroit and Queen Charlotte, which she then engaged close to leeward 
within pistol shot. These wo ships were cut off and practically sur- 
rounded by the American squadron. The Scorpzon on their weather 
