On the Lakes 271 



Broadside 

 Name. Rig. Tonnage.Crew. Metal; Ibs. Armament. 



M.MU,. brig y,79 too 3IO {.,;:JS;S 



"*" '" <*> '53 {,'&&,$ 



Sydnty Smith, schooner 216 80 172 \ long 12'$ 



/ ro stiort 3? s 

 ( i lung 24 



Btrtsford, 187 70 87 < i " 9 



( 6 short i8's 



2 .9 77 M74 }i 



This differs but slightly from James, who gives 

 Yeo 92 guns throwing a broadside of 1,374 pounds, 

 but only 717 men. As the evidence in the court- 

 martial held on Captain Barclay, and the official 

 accounts (on both sides) of Macdonough's victory, 

 convict him of very much underrating the force in 

 men of the British on Erie and Champlain, it can 

 be safely assumed that he has underestimated the 

 force in men on Lake Ontario. By comparing the 

 tonnage he gives to Barclay's and Downie's squad- 

 rons with what it really was, we can correct his 

 account of Yeo's tonnage. 



The above figures would apparently make the 

 two squadrons about equal, Chauncy having 95 

 men more, and throwing at a broadside 144 pounds 

 shot less than his antagonist. But the figures do 

 not by any means show all the truth. The Ameri- 

 cans greatly excelled in the number and calibre of 

 their long guns. Compared thus, they threw at 

 one discharge 694 pounds of long-gun metal and 

 536 pounds of carronade metal ; while the British 

 only threw from their long guns 180 pounds, and 

 from their carronades 1,194. This unequal dis- 

 tribution of metal was very much in favor of the 



