At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of October they were alongside the pair of enemy brigs and together the bluejackets and the infantry tumbled over the bulwarks with cutlass, pistols, and boarding pike.

In ten minutes both vessels were captured and under sail for the American shore.

The _Caledonia_ was safely beached at Black Rock, where Elliott was building his little navy yard.

The wind, however, was so light that the _Detroit_ was swept downward by the river current and had to anchor under the fire of British batteries.

These she fought with her guns until all her powder was shot away.