 Historians have criticised both Yeo and Chauncey for their unwillingness to act decisively, and for the long and rambling excuses for their setbacks that they made in their despatches.Chauncey has received more abuse from American historians than Yeo has from British historians.Roosevelt (and subsequent authors) argued that, as the overall American strategy was offensive, the American forces on Lake Ontario ought to have risked an attack against Kingston, or Chauncey should have sought an all-out action against Yeo's squadron when opportunity offered.