The _Growler_ and the _Eagle_ were worth the
trouble incurred in capturing them. Each mounted eleven guns. They had
long eighteens upon their forecastles, and their broadside guns were
composed of twelves and sixes. The crew of each vessel consisted of
thirty-five men and between the two vessels there was a company of
marines, who embarked on the previous evening at Champlain. Nor was the
cost to the captors very great. No one was killed and only three men
were severely wounded, while the enemy suffered severely in killed and
wounded, and a hundred men were made prisoners.

These vessels now called the _Shannon_ and the _Blake_, as
forget-me-nots of an action recently fought, but not yet noticed, in
Chesapeake Bay, were speedily turned to excellent use. It was conceived
expedient to destroy the barracks, hospitals and stores at Plattsburgh,
Burlington, Champlain, and Swanton, if possible, and an expedition was
accordingly fitted out at Isle-aux-Noix. The two captured sloops of war
were repaired and made ready for the lake. Captain Pring, from Lake
Ontario, was promoted to the rank of commander and sent to take
command, but the sloop of war _Wasp_, having shortly afterwards arrived
at Quebec, Captain Everard, with his whole crew, were sent to
Isle-aux-Noix, and as senior officer assumed the command of the two
vessels and the three gun-boats. The squadron sailed on the 29th of
July, with about nine hundred men on board, consisting of detachments
of the 13th, 100th, and 103rd regiments of the line, under Lieutenants
Colonel Taylor and Smelt, some royal artillery under Captain Gordon,
and a few militia, as batteaux men, under Colonel Murray. The
expedition was altogether successful. At Plattsburgh, the American
General, Moore, made no opposition to the landing of the British, but
retired with fifteen hundred soldiers, Murray, meanwhile, destroying
the arsenal, public buildings, commissariat stores, and the new
barracks, capable of accommodating five thousand men. Neither did the
squadron lie idly by. Captains Everard and Pring, in the _Growler_ and
_Eagle_, proceeded to Burlington, and threw the place into the utmost
consternation. Gen'l. Hampton, who was encamped there with four
thousand men, was unable to prevent the capture and destruction of four
vessels. And the two ships did not linger there either unnecessarily.
They went back to Plattsburgh, re-embarked the troops, and proceeded to
Swanton, Colonel Murray sending a