. The naval history of the United States. upon the deck, gasping inthe last agonies of death, but stoutly protesting that he would not becarried below until he received the sword of the commander of theBoxer. At last this was brought him; and grasping it he cried, NowI am satisfied. I die contented. The two shattered brigs were taken into Portland, where the bodiesof the two slain commanders were buried with all the honors of war. The Enterprise was repaired, and made one more cruise before the close ofthe war; but the Boxer was found to be forever ruined for a vesselof war, and she was sold i
. The naval history of the United States. upon the deck, gasping inthe last agonies of death, but stoutly protesting that he would not becarried below until he received the sword of the commander of theBoxer. At last this was brought him; and grasping it he cried, NowI am satisfied. I die contented. The two shattered brigs were taken into Portland, where the bodiesof the two slain commanders were buried with all the honors of war. The Enterprise was repaired, and made one more cruise before the close ofthe war; but the Boxer was found to be forever ruined for a vesselof war, and she was sold into the merchant-service. The fact that she 446 BLUE-JACKETS OF 1812. was so greatly injured in so short a time led a London paper, in speakingof the battle, to say, The fact seems to be but too clearly established,*hat the Americans have some superior mode of firing; and we cannotbe too anxiously employed in discovering to what circumstances thatsuperiority is owing. This battle practically closed the years naval events upon the THE SURRENDER OF THE BOXER. The British privateer Dart was captured near Newport by some volun-teers from the gunboats stationed at that point. But, with this exception,nothing noteworthy in naval circles occurred dining the remainder r,f theyear. LooHng back over the annals of the naval operations of 1813, it BLUE-JACKETS OE 1812. 447 is clear that the Americans were the chief sufferers. They had the vic-tories over the Peacock, Boxer, and Highflyer to boast of; butthey had lost the Chesapeake, Argus, and Viper. But, more thanthis, they had suffered their coast to be so sealed up by British blockadersthat many of their best vessels were left to lie idle at their docks. Theblockade, too, was growing stricter daily, and the outlook for the futureseemed gloomy; yet, as it turned out, in 1814 the Americans regainedthe ground they had lost the year before.
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