US Navy had won single-ship duels during the war although they had no strategic effect. Particular attention was given those battles because American propaganda had projected them as battles of equal force, but the only single-ship duel in which the forces were equal was the Battle of Boston Harbor, which the British won. Furthermore, the British had effectively won the war on the ocean since almost all of the US Navy was blockaded and so was unable to fight. British honor was restored when USS "President" was captured and taken to Britain so that all could see that the American ships that supposedly participated in the battles of so-called equal force were actually much larger than the British ships that they engaged.