INDEX
Adams, John Quincy, American minister at St. Petersburg, [225.]
Alexandria, capitulation of, [283.]
Allen, Capt. W. H., killed, [202.]
Allen, Col., [085;] killed, [088.]
Alwyn, Master, [069.]
Angus, Capt., [169.]
Appling, Major, at Sandy Creek, [256;] at Plattsburg, [262.]
Armistead, Major George, in command at Fort McHenry, [288.]
Armstrong, Gen. John, made Secretary of War, and plans Wilkinson's expedition, [149.]
Austill, J., in canoe fight, [190,], [191.]
Autosse, battle of, [187.]
Backus, Lieut.-Col. Electus, at Sackett's Harbor, [113;] killed, [115.]
Bailey, Capt., at Fort Mims, [181.]
Bainbridge, Com. William, [024;] cruise in the Constitution, [078.]
Ball, Col., his fight with Indians, [044.]
Barclay, Capt. R. H., on Lake Erie, [128.]
Barney, Com. Joshua, in the defence of Washington, [275.]
Barrette, Capt. G. W., killed, [220.]
Barron, Capt. James, in command of the Chesapeake, [010.]
Bayard, James A., made a peace commissioner, [225.]
Beasley, Major Daniel, killed, [181.]
Beatty, Col., at Craney Island, [173.]
Beaver Dams, fight at, [122.]
Beckwith, Sir S., at Hampton, [173.]
Bennett, Major, at Lewiston, [164.]
Biddle, Capt. James, [075;] in the Hornet, [325.]
Bisshopp, Lieut.-Col., attacks Black Rock, [124;] killed, [125.]
Bissley, a sailor, his heroism, [318.]
Black Rock, N. Y., attack on, [124;] fight at, [165,] burned;, [166.]
Bladensburg, battle of, [278.]
Blakely, Capt., in the Wasp, [320.]
Blakeslie, Lieut.-Col., at Black Rock, [165.]
Blue-Lights, origin of the term, [205.]
Blythe, Capt. Samuel, killed, [204.]
Boerstler, Lieut.-Col. C. G., captures batteries on the Niagara, [099;] captured at Beaver Dams, [123.]
Boothbay, fight at, [273.]
Bounties, [224.]
Boyd, Gen. J. P., at Fort George, [108;] at Chrysler's Field, [154.]
Boyle, Capt., in the Comet, [216.]
Brody, Col., at Lundy's Lane, [239;] killed, [244.]
Brant, John, at Beaver Dams, [122.]
Bridgewater, battle of, [244.]
British Government, character of, [353.]
Brock, Gen. Isaac, assumes command at Malden, [034;] receives surrender of Detroit, [036;] at Queenstown, [054;] death, [055.]
Broke, Capt. Vere, [065;] captures the Chesapeake, [179.]
Brown, Gen. Jacob, at Ogdensburg, [047;] at Sackett's Harbor, [113;] in Wilkinson's expedition, [152;] his campaign on the Niagara, [231.]
Brownstown, fight at, [031.]
Buffalo burned, [166.]
Bum, Col., at Fort George, [111.]
Burnt Corn Creek, fight at, [179.]
Burrows, Lieut. Wm., killed, [204.]
Bush, Lieut., [069.]
Caller, Col. James, in Creek campaign, [179.]
Canada, invasion of planned, [026.] Canoe-fight, Dale's, [188.]
Carronades described, [076.]
Cass, Col. Lewis, in Detroit campaign, [032;] to, [037;] made provisional governor of Michigan, [148.]
Castine, Me., captured, [269.]
Castlereagh, Lord, quoted, [015.]
Champlin, Capt. Guy R., his fight in the Armstrong, [218.]
Chandler, Gen., at Stony Creek, [118.]
Chapin, Maj., at Beaver Dams, [124.]
Charlotte, N. Y., stores captured at, [121;] bombarded, [225.]
Chateaugua, battle of, [157.]
Chauncey, Com. Isaac, on Lake Ontario, [098;] pursues Yeo, [125;] captures four vessels, [148.]
Chesapeake, frigate, attacked by the Leopard, [010.]
Chicago, battle of, [033.]
Chippewa, battle of, [233.]
Chrysler's Field, battle of, [154.]
Chrystie, Lieut.-Col. John, at Queenstown, [051.]
Claiborne, Gen. F. L., in Creek campaign, [187;] governor of Louisiana, [333.]
Clay, Gen. Green, relieves Fort Meigs, [091.]
Clay, Henry, made a peace commissioner, [226.]
Cochrane, Admiral, in the burning of Washington, [282.]
Cockburn, Admiral, ravages the coasts of the Chesapeake, [170;] in the campaign against Washington, [277.]
Cocke, Gen. John, in Creek campaign, [183.]
Coffee, Col. John, in Creek campaign, [183;] at Horseshoe Bend, [228;] at New Orleans, [335.]
Coombs, Leslie, [084.]
Cooper, Capt., at Hampton, [175.]
Cost of the northern campaigns, [160.]
Covington, Gen. L., killed, [155.]
Cowell, Lieut. J. G., his heroic death, [317.]
Craney Island, fight at, [172.]
Creek Indians supplied with arms by British agents, [178;] Jackson's campaign against them, [179.]
Crockett, David, in Creek campaign, [183.]
Croghan, Major, at Fort Stephenson, [094;] at Michilimackinac, [259.]
Crutchfield, Major, at Hampton, [174.]
Dacres, Capt., loses the Guerriere, [070.]
Dale, Col., killed, [344.]
Dale, Gen. S., his canoe-fight, [188.]
Darnell, Elias, his journal, [039.]
Dartmoor, prisoners at, [348.]
Davis, John, his heroism, [216.]
Dearborn, Fort, [032.]
Dearborn, Gen. Henry, placed in command of United States army, [023;] enters into an armistice, [049;] on the Niagara, [118.]
Decatur, Com. Stephen, his cruise in the United States, [076;] driven into New London, [204;] in the President, [325.]
Decrees, the Berlin and Milan, [012,], [015.]
De Haren, Major, at Beaver Dams, [123;]
Dennis, Capt., at Queenstown, [052.]
Deserters, reclamation of, [007,] to, [010.]
Desha, Capt., wounded, [259.]
Diron, Capt., in the Decatur, [220.]
Dorchester, Lord, calls a council of Indians, [003.]
Douglass, Major, at Fort Erie, [246.]
Downes, Lieut. J., with Porter, [295.]
Downie, Com. George, at Platts-burg, [262;] killed, [267.]
Drummond, Gen., takes revenge for the burning of Newark, [162;] besieges Fort Erie, [244.]
Drummond, Lieut.-Col., at Fort Erie, [246;] killed, [247.]
Dudley, Col., at Fort Meigs, [091.]
Eastport, Me., captured, [268.]
Econochaca, battle of, [187.]
Elliott, Lieut. Jesse D., his exploit on the Niagara, [048;] in battle of Lake Erie, [132.]
Embargo, [013;] of 1813, [206.]
Emucfau, fight at, [227.]
Enotachopco Creek, fight at, [227.]
Erie, Fort, captured by the Americans, [232;] beseiged by the British, [244.]
Erie, Lake, building vessels on, [127;] battle of, [130;] Indian battle on,[136.]
Eustis, Hon. Wm., [026.]
Fanning, Lieut., at Sackett's Harbor, [115.]
Farragut, David G., in battle of Essex and Phoebe, [314;] extracts from his journal, [314.]
Fitzgibbon, Lieut., at Beaver Dams, [123.]
Floyd, Gen. John, in Creek campaign, [187.]
Forsyth, Capt., at Gananoqui, [046;] at York, [100;] at Fort George, [108;] in Wilkinson's expedition, [152.]
Fort Wayne, siege of, [040.]
Franklin, Benj., his prediction, [001.]
Fredericktown, Md., ravaged, [171.]
Frenchtown, battle of, [085.]
Gaines, Gen., takes command on the Niagara, [244;] disabled, [249.]
Gallatin, Albert, made a peace commissioner, [225.]
Gamble, Lieut., in Typee campaign, [300.]
Gananoqui, fight at, [046.]
Gattanewa, Happah chief, [298.]
George III. quoted, [002.]
George, Fort, capture of, [107.]
Georgetown, Md., ravaged, [171.]
Ghent, Treaty of, 346-7.
Gibbs, Gen. Samuel, at New Orleans, [339;] killed, [344.]
Gleig, Lieut., quoted, [336,], [338.]
Gray, Col., at Sackett's Harbor, [115.]
Hall, Gen., at Buffalo, [164.]
Hamilton, Lieut., at Fort Madison, [044.]
Hampden, Me., captured, [270.]
Hampton, Va., destroyed, [173.]
Hampton, Gen. W., his connection with Wilkinson's expedition, [150;] defeated by De Salaberry, [139.]
Hancock, Major, at La Colie, [232.]
Hanson, Alexander, mobbed, [021.]
Hardy, Sir Thomas, his expeditions on the eastern coast, [268.]
Harrison, Fort, fight at, [041.]
Harrison, Gen. Wm. H., in command in the West, [038,], [055,], [084;] his campaign on the Thames, [140.]
Hartford Convention, [326.]
Havre de Grace destroyed, [170.]
Heald, Capt. Nathan, in battle of Chicago, [032.]
Henley, Lieut., at Plattsburg, [266.]
Hillabee towns, fight at, [186.]
Hillyar, Capt. James, sent out in search of the Essex, [310. ]
Hindman, Capt., at Fort George, [108;] in Brown's campaign, [232.]
Hislop, Gen., captured, [080.]
Holmes Major, killed, [239.]
Hoophole Creek, fight at, [137.]
Horseshoe Bend, battle of, [228.]
Hough. Lieut., at Stonington, [273.]
Houston, Sam, in Creek campaign, [183,], [228.]
Hull, Capt. Isaac, his race in the Constitution, [066;] captures the Guerriere, [068.]
Hull, Gen. William, his campaign, and surrender of Detroit, [028,] to, [037.]
Indians, armed for depredation by the British, [003.]
Irvine, Capt. Armstrong, at Chrysler's
Field, [156.]
Isaacs, Midshipman, [313.]
Izard, Gen. George, on the Chateaugua, [159;] succeeds Wilkinson, [253;] fiasco on the Niagara, [258.]
Jackson, Gen. Andrew, takes command of Tennessee volunteers, [183;] campaign against the Creeks, [383;] second campaign against the Creeks [227;] his campaign on the Gulf coast, [332;] his victory at New Orleans, [343.]
Jesup, Major, his plan to invade Canada, [026;] at Chippewa, [233;] at Lupdy's Lane, [239.]
Johnson, Lieut.-Col. James, at battle of the Thames, [144.]
Johnson, John, his heroism, [216.]
Johnson, Col. R. M., in Harrison's campaign, [140;] kills Tecumseh, [145.]
Jones, Capt. Jacob, sails in the Wasp, [073.]
Keane, Gen., at New Orleans, [343;] wounded, [344.]
Key, Francis S., how he wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner,", [288.]
King, Major, at York, [101.]
La Colle Mill, fight at, [a]251.]
Lafitte, Jean, in Jackson's campaign, [332.]
Lambert, Capt., killed, [080.]
Lambert, Gen. John, at New Orleans, [341.]
Lang, John, his exploit, [074.]
Larrabee, Lieut., at La Colie, [252.]
Lathrop, Lieut., at Stonington., [273.]
Lawrence, Capt. James, sails in the Hornet, [079;] defeats the Peacock, [195;] defeated in the Chesapeake, [197;] killed, [199.]
Lawrence, Maj. W., at Mobile, [334.]
Leavenworth, Major, at Chippewa, [235;] at Lundy's Lane, [239;] killed, [244.]
Lee, Gen. Henry, assists Hanson against rioters, [022.]
Leonard, Capt., at Fort Niagara, [163;] at Plattsburg, [262.]
Lewis, Col., [083.]
Lewistown, Del., bombarded, [168.]
Lewiston, N, Y., burned, [164.]
Lingan, Gen. James M., killed, [022.]
Long-log Lane, battle of, [287.]
Lundy's Lane, battle of, [239.]
McArthur, Col., in Detroit campaign, [032.]
McClure, Gen. George, his performances on the Niagara, [161.]
McDonall, Lieut.-Col., at Michilimackinac, [259.]
McDonell, Lieut.-Col., at Queenstown, [055.]
McDonough, Lieut., at Fort Erie, [247.]
Macdonough, Lieut. Thomas, at Plattsburg, [264.]
McDougall, Capt., at New Orleans, [344.]
McFarland, Major, killed, [244.]
McHenry, Fort, bombarded, [287.]
McKnight, Lieut., in Typee campaign, [305.]
McNeil, Major, at Chippewa, [235;] at Lundy's Lane, [239;] killed, [244.]
Macomb, Gen. Alexander, at Fort George, [108;] in Wilkinson's expedition, [152;] at Plattsburg, [261.]
McPherson, Capt., at La Colie, [252.]
Madison, Fort, fight at, [043.]
Madison, James, President of the United States, recommends a declaration of war, [016;] at Bladens-burg, [278.]
Madison, Major, at Frenchtown, [088.]
Maguaga, fight at, [032.]
Malden, Hull's forces at, [029,], [030.]
Manchester, N. Y., burned, [164.]
Manners, Capt., killed, [321.]
Manowa, Chief, his exploit, [230.]
Martin, sloop-of-war, fight with, [169.]
Meigs, Fort, siege of, [090.]
Melville, Capt., at Sandy Creek, [257.]
Michilimackinac captured by the British, [030;] American expedition against, [258.]
Miller, Col. James, at Maguaga, [031;] at Lundy's Lane, [242.]
Miller, Col. John, at Fort Meigs, [091.]
Mills, Col., killed, [114.]
Mims, Fort, massacre at., [179.]
Mitchell, Lieut.-Col., at Oswego, [254.]
Mobile, battle at, [334.]
Monroe, Jas., at Bladensburg, [278.]
Montgomery, Major L. P., at Horseshoe Bend, [229;] killed, [230.]
Moorfields, fight at, [285.]
Moravian Town destroyed, [147.]
Morris, Capt., at Hampden, [269.]
Morris, Lieut., [069.]
Murray, Col., at Fort Niagara, [163.]
Naval Battles: Argus and Pelican, [202.] Armstrong and Queen, [214;] and an English frigate, [218;] destroyed at Fayal, [322.] Chesapeake and Shannon, [197.] Comet against four vessels, [216.] Constitution and Guerriere, [067;] and Java, [079;] and Cyane and Levant, [325.] Decatur and Dominica, [220.] Dolphin and two vessels, [217.] Enterprise and Boxer, [202.] Essex and Alert, [065;] and Phoebe and Cherub, [310.] Globe against two packets, [221.] Grampus and a sloop, [221.] Hornet and Peacock, [195.] Hornet (another) and Penguin, [325.] Lake Erie, Perry's victory, [130;] an Indian, [136.] Lottery against barges, [218.] Peacock and Epervier, [320.] Plattsburg, Macdonough's victory, [263.] President and Belvidera, [064;] and Endymion, [325;] and Little Belt, [062.] Saratoga and Morgiana, [221.] Tompkins and a frigate, [215.] United States and Macedonian, [075.] Wasp and Avon, [321;] and Bream, [220;] and Frolic, [073;] and Reindeer, [320.] Yankee and Eagle, [222.]
Navy, British, size of, [023.]
Navy, U. S., size of at opening of war, [023;] proposal to lay up, [023.]
Negro sailors, protection denied to, [206.]
Newark, burned, [162.]
New London, Conn., American vessels blockaded at, [204.]
New Orleans, British forces appear before, [336;] first battle, [337;] second battle, [342.]
Newspapers, English, cited, [006,], [071,], [072,], [078,], [211,], [222,], [225,], [284,], [285,], [337.]
Niagara, battle of, [244.]
Niagara, Fort, capture and massacre, [162.]
North Point, battle of, [286.]
Ogdensburg, expedition against, [047.]
Old Ironsides, [081.]
O'Neill, at Havre de Grace, [170.]
Orders in Council, [012,], [016.]
Oswego, Yeo's expedition against, [253.]
Pakenham, Gen. Sir Edward, in command before New Orleans, [339;] killed, [344.]
Parker, Sir Peter, killed, [286.]
Patterson, Com., sent against Lafitte, [333;] at New Orleans, [341.]
Peace negotiations, [223.]
Peake, Capt., killed, [195.]
Pearce, Col., at York, [103.]
Pearson, Lieut.-Col., at Chippewa, [232.]
Percy, Capt., at Mobile, [334.]
Perry, Capt. O. H., at Fort George, [108;] exploits on Lake Erie, [127;] in Thames campaign, [141.]
Perry, Capt., commands a battery on the Potomac, [284.]
Pensacola, occupied by Jackson, [335.]
Pettigrew, Lieut., captures stores, [107.]
Pike, Gen. Zeb. M., in expedition against York, [101;] death, [103.]
Plattsburg, battle of, [261.]
Poinsett, Joel R., United States Consul at Valparaiso, demands protection for the Essex, [313.]
Political parties, explanation, [016.]
Porter, Capt. David, commands a battery on the Potomac, [284;] his cruise in the Pacific, [290.]
Porter, Col.M., at Fort George, [109.]
Porter, Gen. Peter B., at Black Rock, [125;] in Brown's campaign, [231;] at Charlotte, [255.] Poultneyville, N. Y., fight at, [256.]
Prairie du Chien captured, [258.]
Prevost, Gen. Sir George, attacks Sackett's Harbor, [112;] his invasion of New York, [260.]
Prisoners, twenty-three of them held for trial, [059;] treatment of, [348.]
Privateers, [207;] Jefferson's opinion of, [208;] abolished by the Treaty of Paris, [210;] some of their captures, [212;] some of their battles, [215.]
Proctor, Col. Henry, in Detroit campaign, [031;] at Frenchtown, [086;] in Thames campaign, [141.]
Pryor, Capt., at Hampton, [174.]
Purdy, Col., on the Chateaugua,158.
Putnam, Major, at Lastport, [268.]
Queenstown, battle of, [049.]
Race, a celebrated naval, [066.]
Raisin, massacre at the, [089.]
Randall, Col., at Stonington, [273.]
Red Jacket at Chippewa, [234.]
Reid, Capt. Samuel C., in the General Armstrong, [322.]
Rhea, Capt., at Fort Wayne, [040.]
Riall, Gen., bums villages on the Niagara, [164;] at Chippewa, [232;] at Lundy's Lane, [239;] captured, [241.]
Riddle, Lieut., at York., [103;] at Buffalo, [166.]
Riot in Baltimore, [021.]
Ripley, Gen. E. W., succeeds, and at Lundy's Lane, [243.]
Rochester, N. Y., [231.]
Rodgers, Com. John, naval battles, 62-64.
Ross, Gen., his expedition against Washington, [274;] killed, 286-87.
Rottenberg, Gen. de, attacks Wilkinson's expedition, [153.]
Ruff, negro boy, drowned, [318.]
Rule of 1756, [011.]
Russell, Jonathan, made a peace commissioner, [226.]
Russian Government offers mediation, [225.]
Sackett's Harbor, attack on, in.
St. Clair, Commander Arth., his expedition to Michilimackinac, [258.]
St. Leonard's Creek, fight in, [275.]
Salaberry, Lieut.-Col. de, defeats Hampton, [157.]
Sandy Creek, fight at, [256.]
Scalps, bounty offered for, [003,], [179.]
Scituate, Mass., shipping burned at, [273.]
Scott, Lieut.-Col. Winfield, at Queenstown, [052;] his repartee, [082;] at Fort George, [108;] at Hoophole Creek, [157;] march from Plattsburg to Buffalo, [231;] at Chippewa, [233;] at Lundy's Lane, [239;] his bad memory, [330.]
Seamen, impressment of, [008,] to, [010.]
Servant, Capt., at Hampton, [174.]
Shaler, Capt. N., his sea-fight, [215.]
Shead, Sailing Master, in fight with sloop Martin, [169.]
Sheaffe, Gen. Roger H., at Queenstown, [054;] at York, [100.]
Shelby, Gov., in Harrison's campaign, [140.]
Sheldon, Lieut., at La Colle, [252,]
Short, Lieut.-Col., his ideas about quarter, [095.]
Smith, Sydney, quoted, [350.]
Sodus, N. Y., burned, [121.]
Southcomb, Capt., his fight in the Lottery, [218.]
Springs, definition of, [313,] note.
Stafford, Capt. W. S., his cruise in the Dolphin, [217.]
Stansbury, Gen., at Bladensburg, [279.]
"Star-Spangled Banner," how it was written, [288.]
Stephenson, Fort, siege of, [094.]
Stewart, Capt. Charles, [024;] in the Constitution, [325.]
Stone, Col., bums St. Davids, and is court-martialed, [238.]
Stonington, Conn., bombarded, [270.]
Stony Creek, battle of, [118.]
Strieker, Gen., at North Point, [286.]
Swartwout, Gen. Robert, at Chrysler's
Field, [154.]
Swift, Gen. J., at Poultneyville, [256.]
Talladega, battle of, [185.]
Tallnschatches, battle of, [184.]
Tar-cha-chee, death of, [192.]
Taylor, Gen. Robert R., at Hampton, [177.]
Taylor, Capt. Zachary, at Fort Harrison, [041.]
Tecumseh, at Maguaga, [032;] his scheme, [038;] at Fort Meigs, [092;] his rebuke of massacre, [093;] in Thames campaign, [144;] killed, [145.]
Thames, battle of the, [140.]
Thornton, Col., at N. Orleans, [342.]
Thornton, Dr., saves the Patent Office, [282.]
Towson, Capt., in Brown's campaign, [235;] at Fort Erie, [245.]
Tuscarora, N. Y., burned, [164.]
Tuttle, Lieut.-Col., at Sackett's Harbor, [116.]
Typee Valley, Porter's campaign in, [297.] J
Upham, Lieut.-Col., at Chrysler's Field, [156.]
Van Horne, Major Thomas B., at Brownstown, [031.]
Van Lloyd, Capt., at Fayal, [323.]
Van Rensselaer, Lieut.-Col. Sol. at battle of Queenstown, [050.]
Van Rensselaer, Gen. Stephen, in command on the Niagara, [049.]
Vincent, Gen., at Stony Creek, [117.]
Wadsworth, Gen. William, at Queenstown, [056.]
Walbach, Adjt.-Gen., at Chrysler's Field, [156.]
War, its issue determined by the battle-ground, [024.]
Wareham, Mass., raid on, [273.]
Warren, Admiral, joins Cockburn in the Chesapeake, [171.]
Warrington, Capt. Lewis, in the Peacock, [320.]
Washington, Ross's campaign against, [274;] burned, [282.]
Weathersford, Wm., at Fort Mims, [180;] at the canoe-fight, [189.]
Whinyates, Capt., loses the Frolic, [073.]
White, Gen. in Creek campaign, [186.]
Whitley, Col., killed, [147.]
Wilkinson, Gen. James, his expedition toward Montreal, [149;] his last invasion of Canada, [a]251.]
Wilmer, Lieut., killed, [318.]
Winchester, Gen., his expedition, [084.]
Winder, Gen. Wm. H., at Stony Creek, [118;] in command before Washington, [276.]
Wood, Capt., quoted, [093.]
Wool, Capt. John E., at Queenstown, [052;] at Plattsburg, [262.]
Woolsey, Lieut.-Com., in the Oneida, [098;] at Sandy Creek, [256.]
Worth, Lieut., Wm. J., at Chrysler's Field, [156.]
Yeo, Sir James Lucas, attacks Sackett's Harbor, [112;] at Charlotte and Sodus, [121.]
York, expedition against, [100,], [122.]
Youngstown, N. Y., burned, [164.]