Upon second thought they decided to leave the Americans to themselves.
This wonderful exploit was celebrated in song, one stanza of which ended thus: "From set of sun till rise of morn, through the long September night, Ninety men against two thousand, and the ninety won the fight; In the harbor of Fayal the Azore." While the victory of itself was one of the most remarkable of which there is any record, it resembled that of Perry on Lake Erie in its far-reaching consequences.

Admiral Cochrane found his ships so crippled that he returned to England to refit.

He then sailed for New Orleans, which he reached a few days after it had been occupied by General Jackson.

But for the delay caused by his fight with Captain Reid he would have shut out General Jackson from the city and prevented his winning the most glorious land victory of the whole war.
LESSER WARS.
CHAPTER XIX.
Resentment of the Barbary States--The War with Algiers--Captain Decatur's Vigorous Course--His Astonishing Success as a Diplomat.
It was not alone in our wars with the leading nations that the American navy won glory.

Wherever there arose a demand for its work, its patriotism, skill and bravery were instant to respond.
England had its hands full during the early years of the nineteenth century in combating Napoleon Bonaparte and other nations with which she became embroiled.