When we came to count the killed and wounded we are unable to learn the whole loss on the British side. James, for instance, assumes that none was hurt in the British gun-boats, because none was mentioned in Captain Pring’s report. Pring, being a prisoner, wrote his report on the day after the battle in Plattsburg, and so could have no knowledge of the losses on the gun-boats that escaped, and no complete list of those in the captured ships. He says in his report that no muster of the British crews was taken. However, the Americans “took out one hundred and eighty dead and wounded from the _Confiance_, fifty from the _Linnet_, and forty from the _Chubb_ and _Finch_.” This aggregates two hundred and seventy, but does not include the dead thrown overboard from the British ships during the action, nor does it include British gun-boat casualties. When it is recalled that the gun-boats that gathered around the Yankee schooner _Ticonderoga_ were driven off by firing bags of musket-balls at them--musket-balls that simply dusted the entire decks of every one in reach--and that these decks were unprotected by bulwarks while each carried a crew of not less than twenty-six (one good authority says an average of fifty each)--when all this is considered, it is fair to add one hundred to the two hundred and seventy killed and wounded of which we are certain. The British unquestionably lost a third of their force afloat. Macdonough’s list of killed and wounded probably includes only the wounded sent to the hospital. It is as follows: _Saratoga_, twenty-eight killed and twenty-nine wounded; _Eagle_, thirteen killed and twenty wounded; _Ticonderoga_, six killed and six wounded; _Preble_, two killed; _Boxer_ (gun-boat), three killed and one wounded; _Centipede_ and _Wilmer_, one wounded on each. In all fifty-two were killed and fifty-eight wounded. Roosevelt thinks ninety more were slightly wounded, but if we go into the slightly wounded list, we find that almost every man on both the flagships was thumped or scratched in some way.