On the Ocean 69 



manded by Mr. Thomas M. Pendleton, captured off 

 Sapoleo Bar, Ga., the British privateer Fortune of 

 War, armed with two heavy pivot guns, and 35 

 men. She made a brief resistance, losing two of 

 her men. 58 



On Sept. 1 5th the British 2O-gun ship-sloops 

 Hermes and Can on, and i8-gun brig-sloops Sophie 

 and Childers, and a force of 200 men on shore, 59 

 attacked Fort Bowyer, on Mobile Point, but were 

 repulsed without being able to do any damage what 

 ever to the Americans. The Hermes was sunk and 

 the assailants lost about 80 men. 



On the 26th of September, while the privateer- 

 schooner General Armstrong, of New York, Cap 

 tain Samuel C. Reid, of one long 24, eight long Q'S, 

 and 90 men, was lying at anchor in the road of 

 Fayal, a British squadron, composed of the Planiag- 

 enet, 74, Captain Robert Floyd, Rota, 38, Captain 

 Philip Somerville, and Carnation, 18, Captain 

 George Bentham, hove in sight. 60 One or more 

 boats were sent in by the British, to reconnoitre the 

 schooner, as they asserted, or, according to the 

 American accounts, to carry her by a coup de main. 

 At any rate, after repeatedly warning them off, the 

 privateer fired into them, and they withdrew. Cap- 



58 Letter from Commodore H. E. Campbell, St. Mary's, 

 Sept. 12, 1814. * James, vi, 527. 



w Letter of Captain S. C. Reid, October 7, 1814; and of John 

 B. Dabney, Consul at Fayal, October 5, 1814. 



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