With nine short twenty-fours in their broadside and one short twelve on a high pivot what damage does the uninformed reader suppose that this one of the ablest of British crews--a crew that could and did load and fire their guns every two minutes--was able to do? They hulled the Yankee with six round shot and put another in the foremast. They fired at least eighty-six shots at the Yankee--a target that was one hundred feet long, eight or ten feet high, and for eighteen minutes less than sixty feet away--and yet only seven struck home. With their grape, and their musketry, fired when the ships were grinding together, they killed and mortally wounded eleven Yankees and severely or slightly wounded fifteen more. [Illustration: Medal Awarded to Johnston Blakeley after the Capture of the _Reindeer_ by the _Wasp_.] On the other hand, the Yankees had not “long served together.” Most of them were landsmen who were seasick for a week on leaving port. And yet because of native ability they had been easily trained; they stood in silence under fire for five shots, and in this, their first battle, they aimed their guns so accurately that “the hull of the _Reindeer_ was literally cut to pieces and her masts were in a tottering state.” This quotation is from Allen. The fact is that she was so badly cut to pieces in the wake of her gun-ports that it was impossible to tell how many Yankee shots did strike her hull. A breeze that sprang up the next day at once toppled the foremast overboard, and, in short, she was so badly injured that she could not be carried into either of the nearby French ports, and she was accordingly fired and blown to pieces. The British lost in killed and mortally wounded thirty-three, and in wounded thirty-four, “nearly all severely.” The _Wasp_ measured 509 tons to the _Reindeer_ 477. She fired eleven guns, throwing 315 pounds of metal to a broadside, where the _Reindeer_ fired ten guns throwing 210 pounds of metal to a broadside. The _Wasp_ had a crew of 173, mostly landsmen, who had been together less than two months; the _Reindeer_ had 118 who were “the pride of Plymouth.” While nothing that is written here can add to the fame of Captain Manners, of the _Reindeer_, it may be said that Anglo-Saxon republicans are proud of his skill, and are thrilled by the story of his magnificent gallantry just as the Anglo-Saxon nominal-monarchists are. Having destroyed the _Reindeer_, Blakeley sailed with the _Wasp_ to L’Orient, France, the port where of old the Yankee cruisers had refitted after cruising against British commerce in the English Channel. _En route_, three days after the battle, a number of the wounded prisoners were put on a Portuguese brig, called the _Lisbon Packet_, and sent to Plymouth.