194 Naval War of 1812 



BRITISH VESSELS DESTROYED, ETC. 



a. By Privateers. 



Name. Guns. Tonnage. Remarks. 



Chasseur 12 240 by privateer St. Lawrence. 



b. By Ocean Cruisers. 



Cyane 34 659 by Constitution. 



Levant 20 500 retaken. 



Penguin 19 477 by Hornet. 



85 guns, 1,876 tons. 



20 500 (substractiug Levant). 



65 guns, i, 376 tons. 



In summing up the results of the struggle on the 

 ocean it is to be noticed that very little was at 

 tempted, and nothing done, by the American Navy 

 that could materially affect the result of the war. 

 Commodore Rodgers' expedition after the Jamaica 

 Plate fleet failed; both the efforts to get a small 

 squadron into the East Indian waters also miscar 

 ried ; and otherwise the whole history of the strug 

 gle on the ocean is, as regards the Americans, only 

 the record of individual cruises and fights. The 

 material results were not very great, at least in their 

 effect on Great Britain, whose enormous navy did 

 not feel in the slightest degree the loss of a few 

 frigates and sloops. But morally the result was 

 of inestimable benefit to the United States. The 

 victories kept up the spirits of the people, cast down 

 by the defeats on land; practically decided in favor 

 of the Americans the chief question in dispute 



