Concluding Operations 



latter returned to shore, left them in a place of safe 

 ty, and again started at 2 A.M. on the morning of 

 the 22d. Numerous transports and barges of the 

 enemy could be seen, observing very little order and 

 apparently taking no precautions against attack, 

 which they probably did not apprehend. One of 

 the American boats captured a transport and five 

 men; another, containing Mr. Shields himself and 

 eight men, carried by boarding, after a short resist 

 ance, a schooner carrying ten men. The flotilla 

 then reunited and captured in succession, with no 

 resistance, five barges containing 70 men. By this 

 time the alarm had spread and they were attacked 

 by six boats, but these were repelled with some loss. 

 Seven of the prisoners (who were now half as many 

 again as their captors) succeeded in escaping in the 

 smallest prize. Mr. Shields returned with the oth 

 ers, 78 in number. During the entire expedition he 

 had lost but three men, wounded; he had taken 132 

 prisoners, arid destroyed eight craft whose aggre 

 gate tonnage about equalled that of the five gun- 

 vessels taken on Lake Borgne. 



On Jan. 30, 1815, information was received by 

 Captain Dent, commanding at North Edisto, Ga., 

 that a party of British officers and men, in four 

 boats belonging to H. M. S. Hebrus, Capt. Palmer, 

 were watering at one of the adjacent islands. 52 



M Letter of Lawrence Kearney of January 30, 1815 (see in the 

 Archives at Washington, "Captains' Letters," vol. 42, No. 100). 



