MAPS AND BATTLE PLANS.

VOLUME TWO.
[Plan of Engagement between Constitution and Java]Page 4
[Plan of Engagement between Hornet and Peacock]Page 8
[Map of Niagara Peninsula]Page 38
[Surroundings of Sackett's Harbor]Page 43
[Plan of Chauncey's Engagement, August 10, 1813]Page 58
[Plan of Erie Harbor, 1814]Page 72
[Diagram of the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813]Page 82
[Chauncey and Yeo, September 28, 1813]Page 108
[Chesapeake and Shannon]Page 136
[Outline Map of Chesapeake Bay and Rivers]Page 156
[Enterprise and Boxer]Page 188
[Argus and Pelican]Page 218
[Montague, Pelham, and Globe]Page 228
[Chasseur and St. Lawrence]Page 238
[Wasp and Reindeer]Page 254
[Sketch of the March of the British Army, under General Ross, from the 19th to the 29th August, 1814]Page 344
[Tracing from pencil sketch of Battle of Lake Champlain made by Commodore Macdonough]Page 368
[Battle of Lake Champlain] Page 377
[The Landing of the British Army, its Encampments and Fortifications on the Mississippi; Works they erected on their Retreat; with the Encampments and Fortifications of the American Army]Page 392

Sea Power in its Relations to
the War of 1812

THE WAR (Continued)

CHAPTER IX[ToC]

THE WINTER OF 1812-1813—BAINBRIDGE'S SQUADRON: ACTIONS
BETWEEN "CONSTITUTION" AND "JAVA," "HORNET" AND
"PEACOCK"—INCREASING PRESSURE ON ATLANTIC COAST

The squadron under Commodore William Bainbridge, the third which sailed from the United States in October, 1812, started nearly three weeks after the joint departure of Rodgers and Decatur. It consisted of the "Constitution" and sloop of war "Hornet," then in Boston, and of the "Essex," the only 32-gun frigate in the navy, fitting for sea in the Delaware. The original armament of the latter, from which she derived her rate, had been changed to forty 32-pounder carronades and six long twelves; total, forty-six guns. It is noticeable that this battery, which ultimately contributed not merely to her capture, but to her almost helplessness under the fire of an enemy able to maintain his distance out of carronade range, was strongly objected to by Captain Porter. On October 14 he applied to be transferred to the "Adams," giving as reasons "my insuperable dislike to carronades, and the bad sailing of the "Essex," which render her, in my opinion, the worst frigate in the service."[1] The request was not granted, and Porter sailed in command of the ship on October 28, the two other vessels having left Boston on the 26th.