As the _President_ did all of her fighting with the _Endymion_ and surrendered as soon as the other two frigates were upon her, the losses on both are interesting. The _President_ lost twenty-four killed and fifty-five wounded. The _Endymion_ lost eleven killed and fourteen wounded. Since the _President_ threw 765 pounds of shot to the _Endymion’s_ 680, the difference in casualties seems remarkable until it is noted that the _President_ fired chiefly at the _Endymion’s_ rigging--it was a fight to escape on the part of the _President_ after it was found the _Endymion_ could not be boarded. Decatur crippled the _Endymion_ until she was thrown out of the battle absolutely. He could have chosen his position and shot her to pieces had she been alone. He “incidentally killed eleven men.” The _Endymion’s_ gunners aimed lower, and killed more. The battle lasted two hours and a half. The _President_ was carried to the Bermudas. There a newspaper called the _Gazette_ printed an article so scandalous that the British officers compelled the editor to publish a retraction, and a pugnacious midshipman, R. B. Randolph, of the _President_, publicly thrashed him. But the articles in this newspaper are used by the historian James in writing the story of the capture. On the way to the Bermudas a gale came on, when the _President_ was dismasted. The _Endymion_ was not only dismasted but had to throw over all the guns (short thirty-twos) on her forecastle and quarter-deck. The _President_ was so badly strained when on the bar at Sandy Hook that she was never commissioned in the British Navy. But, although she had been derisively called “the waggon” while she carried the American flag, her lines were followed by her captors in building new ships after she was taken, and so, too, was her style of armament.