Having placed a prize crew on the _Frolic_, Captain Jones began the work of repairing the damage done aloft with a view of overhauling some of the merchantmen that had formed the convoy. As he began this work a sail was seen rising above the horizon to windward and the crew made haste with the work, at first, for they thought it might be one of the convoy. But when the sails were fairly in view they gave over the task, for it appeared that the ship was a big man-o’-war. A little later still they learned that it was the _Poictiers_, a seventy-four, commanded by Captain John Poer Beresford. The victory over the _Frolic_ was to be of no value to the United States save through its moral influence. Both the _Frolic_ and the _Wasp_ were carried to Bermuda, and it was there that the garbled report of the fight was written. The _Wasp_ was taken into the British navy under the same name, but she was lost at sea without having accomplished anything. What the first American _Wasp_ did has already been related in the story of the naval actions of the Revolution. Captain Jones and his crew, having soon been exchanged, returned home, where they were received with the honors due to “fine, able-bodied seamen” who had thrashed an enemy in such thorough fashion. The Congress voted $25,000 to them as a reward, and Captain Jones was soon placed in command of the frigate _Macedonian_, which was captured from the enemy, as will be told in the next chapter. CHAPTER VII BROUGHT THE _MACEDONIAN_ INTO PORT STORY OF THE SECOND FRIGATE DUEL OF THE WAR OF 1812--THE _MACEDONIAN_ WAS A NEW SHIP, AND HAD BEEN BUILT WITH A FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE YANKEE FRIGATES--WHIPPED, BUT NOT DESTROYED--ESTIMATING A CREW’S SKILL BY THE NUMBER OF SHOTS THAT HIT--SUPPOSE THE ARMAMENTS OF THE SHIPS HAD BEEN REVERSED--IMPRESSED AMERICANS KILLED WHEN FORCED TO FIGHT AGAINST THEIR OWN FLAG--“THE NOBLEST SIGHT IN NATUR’”--A FIRST-RATE FRIGATE, AS A PRIZE, BROUGHT HOME BY BRAVE DECATUR--ENTHUSIASTIC CELEBRATIONS OF THE VICTORY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Of all the battles between American and British ships there was none so often discussed, and none so well remembered among American seamen, previous to and even after the civil war, as that between the _United States_, commanded by Captain Stephen Decatur, and the _Macedonian_, commanded by Captain John Surnam Carden. And the reasons for this were that it was a well-fought battle, the victory for the Americans was well won, and the _Macedonian_ was brought into port, and for many years she carried the Stars and Stripes proudly--flaunted the flag in the faces of British officers in a hundred different parts of the world, and at the last was sent to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, where, as a practice ship for the midshipmen, she not only strengthened their muscles and increased their knowledge, but she stirred their patriotic souls in a way that no other ship could have done.