They hulled the British brig forty-five times and made a shambles of her deck and did it with the loss of one man.
Even more sensational was the last cruise of the _Wasp_, Captain Johnston Blakely, which sailed from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in May and roamed the English Channel to the dismay of all honest British merchantmen.

The brig-of-war _Reindeer_ endeavored to put an end to her career but nineteen minutes sufficed to finish an action in which the _Wasp_ slaughtered half the British crew and thrice repelled boarders.
This was no light task, for as Michael Scott, the British author of _Tom Cringle's Log_, candidly expressed it: In the field, or grappling in mortal combat on the blood-slippery deck of an enemy's vessel, a British soldier or sailor is the bravest of the brave.

No soldier or sailor of any other country, saving and excepting those damned Yankees, can stand against them...

I don't like Americans.

I never did and never shall like them.