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utterly routed the enemy found themselves deserted 

 by their friends. After staying on the shore a 

 couple of hours some of them found two boats and 

 got over; but Captain King and a few soldiers were 

 taken prisoners. Thirty of the seamen, including 

 nine of the twelve officers, were killed or wounded 

 among the former being Sailing-masters Sisson 

 and Watts, and among the latter Mr. Angus, Sail 

 ing-master Carter, and Midshipmen Wragg, Hold 

 up, Graham, Brailesford, and Irvine. Some twenty 

 prisoners were secured and taken over to the Ameri 

 can shore; the enemy's loss was more severe than 

 ours, his resistance being very stubborn, and a good 

 many cannon were destroyed, but the expedition 

 certainly ended most disastrously. The accounts of 

 it are hard to reconcile, but it is difficult to believe 

 that Mr. Angus acted correctly. 



Later in the winter Captain Oliver Hazard Perry 

 arrived to take command of the forces on Lake 

 Erie. 



