“The _Enterprise_ has but one eighteen-pound shot in her hull, and one in her main-mast, and one in her foremast; her sails are much cut by grape-shot, and there are a great number of grape lodged in her sides, but no injury done by them. The _Boxer_ has eighteen or twenty eighteen-pound shot in her hull, most of them at the water’s edge, and several stands of eighteen-pound grape stick in her side, and such a quantity of small grape that I did not undertake to count them. Her masts, sails, and spars are literally cut to pieces, several of her guns dismounted, and unfit for service; her top-gallant forecastle nearly taken off by the shot, her boats cut to pieces, and her quarters injured in proportion.” The British historian Allen in his account of this fight says, on page 438, vol. ii.: “The two vessels were much disproportioned in every way. The _Boxer_ measured one hundred and eighty-one, the _Enterprise_ two hundred and forty-five tons. The one was a fine roomy vessel, well manned and equipped, the _Boxer_ a mere gun-brig, unfit for any other purpose than to protect a convoy of coasters from the attack of a French lugger. The result, therefore, cannot cause any surprise.” As a matter of fact, the _Boxer_ was larger than the _Enterprise_ by thirty-five tons burden, and Allen’s comment is worth quoting to show how a popular British historian misrepresented the little Yankee brig that was built as a schooner to carry a dozen six-pounders. It was as fair a match as one will commonly find described in history. The _Boxer_ was a few tons larger in size, and her officers had had experience in naval battles. The Americans had more guns and more men, with officers who had not had the experience of the enemy. The _Enterprise_ was old and the _Boxer_ new. But while the number of shot which the Americans could throw at a broadside were in number eight to the British seven, the number of times the British hull was struck was eighteen to the one shot the American hull received. The report of the British court that tried the survivors of the crew for the loss of the _Boxer_ said that the defeat of the _Boxer_ was due to “a superiority of force, principally in the number of men, as well as to _a greater degree of skill in the direction of her fire_, and to the destructive effects of the first broadside.” To this may be added what the London _Times_ said, editorially, on October 22, 1813: “But what we regret to perceive stated is, that the _Boxer_ was literally cut to pieces in sails, rigging, spars, and hull; whilst the _Enterprise_ (her antagonist) was in a situation to commence a similar action immediately afterward. The fact seems to be too clearly established that the Americans have some superior mode of firing; and we cannot be too anxiously employed in discerning to what circumstances that superiority is owing.”