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harm's way as possible, and now some were at once 

 called back to man the piece, which then opened with 

 effect. The next gun was treated in the same man 

 ner ; but the ship now hung- and would go no further 

 round. The hawser leading from the port quarter 

 was then got forward under the bows and passed aft 

 to the starboard quarter, and a minute afterward the 

 ship's whole port battery opened with fatal effect. 

 The Confiance meanwhile had also attempted to 

 round. Her springs, like those of the Linnet, were 

 on the starboard side, and so of course could not 

 be shot away as the Eagle's were; but, as she had 

 nothing but springs to rely on, her efforts did little 

 beyond forcing her forward, and she hung with 

 her head to the wind. She had lost over half of her 

 crew, 22 most of her guns on the engaged side were 

 dismounted, and her stout masts had been splintered 

 till they looked like bundles of matches; her sails 

 had been torn to rags, and she was forced to strike, 

 about two hours after she had fired the first broad 

 side. Without pausing a minute the Saratoga again 

 hauled on her starboard hawser still her broadside 

 was sprung to bear on the Linnet, and the ship and 

 brig began a brisk fight, which the Eagle from her 

 position could take no part in, while the Ticonde- 

 roga was just finishing up the British galleys. The 



M Midshipman Lee, in his letter already quoted, says "not 

 five men were left unhurt"; this would of course include 

 bruises, etc., as hurts. 



