The _Chesapeake_ was taken to Halifax. Lawrence and Ludlow were buried there with every honor. The remains of the former were later taken to New York, where in the churchyard of old Trinity they now lie. Lawrence’s dying words: “Don’t give up the ship,” were later blazoned on a flag flown by Perry on Lake Erie, where the dead hero was to have his revenge, for hero he was, however mistaken in judgment. His fatal action was the ignoring of the value of preparation in war. Discipline and training are as necessary as valor, an axiom which our people are only too slow to learn. The result caused immense rejoicing in England. It is the only naval action of the war which to-day receives recognition there, and I doubt if the British people in general, of the present, know of any other. And while treating of it, there is a persistent unfairness in ignoring conditions of the _Chesapeake_; even in articles which were written in 1913, the hundredth year later, by historians from whom fairness might be expected, no mention was made of them. It is left to another and fairer foreigner, a Frenchman, Admiral Jurien de la Gravière, the most distinguished writer on naval affairs of his nation, to tell the truth, when he said: “Fortune was not fickle, she was merely logical.” A little later there was an action which was really discreditable to us: that of the _Argus_, a brig of 298 tons and 10 guns, against the British _Pelican_, of 467 tons and 11 guns. The _Argus_ had been cruising in the English Channel “capturing and burning ship after ship and creating the greatest consternation among the London merchants.” On August 13th she had captured a brig laden with wine from Oporto, a success which was to be apparently her undoing. Next day she met the _Pelican_. The _Argus’s_ captain, Allen, was killed early in the action, as were also two midshipmen; her first lieutenant was wounded. The odds were against her, but not to such degree as to account for the too slight resistance later in the action. It is not unlikely, as has been said by competent historians, that the captured port had much to do with this. The results of such actions had previously been so markedly different that there is reason to suspect this. The capture of the _Argus_ was soon offset by that of the British brig _Boxer_, of 66 men and 14 guns, by the _Enterprise_, of 104 men and 16 guns. Captain Blyth of the _Boxer_ was killed early in the action, as was also Lieutenant Burrows of the _Enterprise_. The few remaining American brigs disappeared by capture by much superior forces, most of them by squadrons from which there was no escape.