The subject of this memoir was a conspicuous sharer in its dangers and in its honors.

The fire of the enemy was promptly answered, and with such efficiency of aim as to be long remembered by the survivors.

Having but five thousand pounds of powder, with which to maintain a conflict that raged for eleven hours, with unabated violence, it became necessary, not only that the discharge from the fort should be timed, but that every shot should be made to do execution.

In order to do this the guns were trained by the field-officers in person; hence, perhaps, the terrible fatality of their fire.

The Bristol, 50 gun ship, Commodore Sir Peter Parker, lost 44 men killed and thirty*2* wounded.