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their quarters and were afterward court-martialed 

 for cowardice. 58 The Enterprise now set her fore- 

 sail and took position on the enemy's starboard bow, 

 delivering raking fires; and at 3.45 the latter sur- 

 rendered, when entirely unmanageable and defence- 

 less. Lieutenant Burrows would not go below until 

 he had received the sword of his adversary, when 

 he exclaimed, "I am satisfied, I die contented." 



Both brigs had suffered severely, especially the 

 Boxer, which had been hulled repeatedly, had three 

 eighteen-pound shot through her foremast, her top- 



gallant forecastle almost cut away, and several of 

 her guns dismounted. Three men were killed and 

 seventeen wounded, four mortally. The Enterprise 

 had been hulled by one round and many grape ; one 

 1 8-pound ball had gone through her foremast, and 

 another through her main-mast, and she was much 

 cut up aloft. Two of her men were killed and ten 

 wounded, two of them (her commander and Mid- 

 shipman Kervin Waters) mortally. The British 

 court-martial attributed the defeat of the Boxer 

 "to a superiority in the enemy's force, principally 

 in the number of men, as well as to a greater degree 



58 Minutes of court-martial held aboard H.M.S. Surprise, 

 January 8, 1814. 



