Concluding Operations 149 



President's crew all told consisted of 450 men, 44 

 none of whom were British. 45 She had thus a hun 

 dred more men than her antagonist and threw about 

 100 pounds more shot at a broadside; but these ad 

 vantages were more than counterbalanced by the in 

 juries received on the bar, and by the fact that her 

 powder was so bad that while some of the British 

 shot went through both her sides, such a thing did 

 not once happen to the Endymion* 9 when fairly 

 hulled. The President lost 24 killed and 55 

 wounded; 47 the Endymion, u killed and 14 

 wounded. 48 Two days afterward, on their way to 

 the Bermudas, a violent easterly gale came on, dur 

 ing which both ships were dismasted, and the En 

 dymion in addition had to throw over all her spar- 

 deck guns. 49 



As can be seen, almost every sentence of this ac 

 count is taken (very nearly word for word) from 

 the various official reports, relying especially on the 

 log of the British frigate Pomone. I have been 

 thus careful to have every point of the narrative es 

 tablished by unimpeachable reference: first, because 

 there have been quite a number of British historians 



44 Depositions of Lieutenant Gallagher and the other officers. 



46 Deposition of Commodore Decatur. 



48 Bermuda "Royal Gazette," January 6, 1818. 



41 Decatur's letter. 



48 Letter of Captain Hope, January 15, 1815. 



49 James, vi, 534. 



