Meantime, however, some Indians had made a dash ashore with canoes and captured a squad of American soldiers, whom they carried off to the British squadron. So Sir George tried again, and on the 29th made a landing. The Americans were outnumbered and at first fled. A new ship called the _General Pike_, a ship called the _Duke of Gloucester_, captured at Toronto, and a barrack containing all the stores captured at the same time, were fired. Then the Americans came back to fight, “the British retired to their vessels, and the Americans, as soon as they could credit their senses, hastened to stop the conflagration.” The _Duke of Gloucester_ and the stores, however, were burned. The above quotations are from “Military Occurrences between Great Britain and the United States.” [Illustration: CAPT^N. SIR JAMES LUCAS YEO.KN^T.] Soon after his victory at Fort George, Chauncey returned to Sackett’s Harbor. In the meantime Captain Sir James L. Yeo had been placed in command of the British naval forces on Lake Ontario. Yeo, in the frigate _Southampton_, had captured the little American twelve-gun brig _Vixen_ in the West Indies, on November 22, 1812, but had lost both his ship and his prize by running ashore on Concepcion Island in the Bahama group. He had also sent a challenge to Captain Porter of the _Essex_, as follows: “Sir James Yeo presents his compliments to Captain Porter, of the American frigate _Essex_, and would be glad to have a _tête-à-tête_, anywhere between the capes of Delaware and Havana, where he would have the pleasure to break his sword over his damned head and put him down forward in irons.” It was Sir James who brought Sir George Prevost to Sackett’s Harbor and carried him back again. Before Chauncey got back to Sackett’s Harbor, Sir James was able to add a new ship, the _Wolfe_, a twenty-four-gun sloop-of-war, to his squadron, and this made his force afloat superior to that of the Americans. Following the failure at Sackett’s Harbor he went cruising, captured two American supply-schooners, and landed at Sodus Point, where he got six hundred barrels of flour. This was in June. During that month the Americans captured a British supply-schooner, and thereafter nothing was done until near the end of July.