They were entirely too far off for the four-pounder gun to be of any use.

Supposing the two eighteen-pounders to have been employed during the whole action, and also all the guns of the fleet, _one_ eighteen-pounder on land must have been more than equivalent to _sixty-seven_ guns afloat, for the ships were so much injured as to render it necessary for them to withdraw.

The British loss was twenty killed, and more than fifty wounded.

Ours was only two killed and six wounded.[20] [Footnote 20: Perkins says two killed and six wounded.

Holmes says six wounded, but makes no mention of any killed.] The fleet sent to the attack of Baltimore, in 1814, consisted of forty sail, the largest of which were ships of the line, carrying an army of over six thousand combatants.