To meet the American squadron came the British with a frigate, a large brig, two sloops, and thirteen gun-boats. The frigate _Confiance_ was manned by a crew of not less than three hundred and twenty-five men, and she was armed with thirty-one long twenty-fours (one on a pivot forward) and in addition carried six short guns that were probably forty-twos, but may have been thirty-twos. She could fire sixteen long twenty-fours in a broadside--her long-gun broadside was but ninety-six pounds short of the long-gun broadside of the whole American fleet. This weight was exactly made up by the British brig _Linnet_, that was armed with sixteen long twelves--fired ninety-six pounds in a broadside. At the range of this battle these two vessels alone should have been equal to the entire American squadron, for not only was their long gun metal equal to the Americans, but they had the very great advantage of concentrating in these two ships the weight of long metal that was scattered over fourteen vessels on the American side. The advantage of concentration of power into few ships is so well understood in these days of huge battleships that nothing more need be said on that subject. In addition to these powerfully armed vessels they had the two vessels captured from the Americans the year before, which had been rebuilt and now measured one hundred and twelve and one hundred and ten tons, respectively, and were armed, the _Chubb_ with one long six-pounder and ten short eighteens, the _Finch_ with four long sixes and seven short eighteens. And then there were the gun-boats. The _Sir James Yeo_, the _Sir George Prevost_, and the _Sir Sidney Beckwith_ carried a long twenty-four and a short thirty-two each. The _Broke_ carried a long eighteen and a short thirty-two. The _Murray_ carried a long eighteen and a short eighteen. The _Wellington_, the _Tecumseh_, and another whose name is not recorded carried a long eighteen each, while the _Drummond_, the _Simcoe_, and three others whose names were omitted in Macdonough’s report (from which this list of gun-boats is taken) carried short thirty-twos. The British threw at least six hundred and sixty pounds of metal from long guns where the Americans could throw but four hundred and eighty. The American short guns threw seven hundred and fourteen pounds of metal to five hundred and sixty-four at least from the British.