Feeble as was the attack, Captain Sanders, of the _Junon_, made a very hasty and ill-directed fire in return, and with the first breath of wind strove to sail clear of the gun-boats. But Captain Sheriff, of the _Barossa_, as soon as he had steerage way, stood for the gun-boats, and by a well-directed fire soon disabled one and struck another, when Captain Tarbell thought best to retreat. The Americans lost one man killed and two wounded. No losses were reported on the British ships, and it is certain that no material damage was done to them, for the _Junon_ was in Delaware Bay a few days later taking part in another fight with gun-boats. The only American who at all distinguished himself in this fight was Lieutenant William Bradford Shubrick, who was in the _Hornet_ when she sank the _Peacock_. He commanded the gun-boat that approached nearest to the enemy, covered the retreat of the flotilla, and towed off the disabled boat, so saving it from capture. But he had had enough of gun-boat service, and as soon as possible got himself transferred to the _Constitution_, where he had a chance to see fighting of some consequence. Meantime, however, he participated in a fight on shore against a landing party of British seamen, marines, and soldiers that ended in one of the most brilliant victories for the Americans known to the war--the victory of Craney’s Island, near Norfolk. This island had been fortified with a battery of eighteen-pounders, but was not ordinarily occupied by troops. It was merely a battery to be manned for the defence of Norfolk, whenever occasion demanded. The occasion arose when, on June 22, 1813, three British seventy-four-gun ships-of-the-line, one sixty-four-gun ship, four frigates, two sloops, and three transports anchored off the island, and prepared to take possession. At that time the American frigate _Constellation_ was blockaded at Norfolk (where she had been from the first), and her commander, Captain John Cassin, sent one hundred and fifty sailors and marines under Lieutenant H. B. Breckenridge to defend the fort. Lieutenants Neale, Shubrick, and Sanders were under Breckenridge. To whelm this tiny force the British came with seven hundred (James says seven hundred, so there were probably more) men in fifteen boats, the leader of the boats being a launch fifty feet long, called the _Centipede_, which was in charge of Captain Hanchett, of the _Diadem_, an illegitimate son of King George IV. The whole expedition was under the command of Captain Samuel John Pechell, the braggart who, in the _Guerrière_, painted her name on her foretop-sail, and then cruised up and down the Yankee coast, and finally took John Deguyo, an American citizen, from the American brig _Spitfire_ when she was within the waters of New York Harbor on May 1, 1811. [Illustration: _From a lithograph at the Navy Department, Washington._]