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INDEX
Abascal, José Fernando de, 122
Adams, David, 124, 190, 241
Adams, John, 12, 19, 21, 49
Adams, John Quincy, 111, 275–278
Adams, Mr. (chaplain), 139, 140, 142, 149, 235
Adonis (Swedish ship), 241, 242
Albatross (U.S. trader ship), 210, 213
Alcohol, 146–147, 155. See also rum
Alexander I (Russian tsar), 10, 13, 111
Algeria, 12, 23, 26, 266, 277
Algiers, 26, 34, 266
American Revolution
Britain in, 17
carronades in, 48
Chile and, 105
Decatur (Stephen, Sr.) in, 33
Derby (Elias Hasket) in, 52
Farragut (George) in, 39
Madison (James) on, 263
Morris (Robert) and, 52
ships during, 10–11, 50
Talbot in, 21
Truxtun in, 19
U.S. Navy and, 12
An Exposition of the Facts and Circumstances which Justified the Expedition to Foxardo (pamphlet by David Porter, Jr.), 276
Anderson, Evelina. See Porter, Evelina
Anderson, Joseph, 276
Anderson, Thomas, 38
Anderson, William, 56
Animals, 69–70, 94, 99, 134, 157–158
Anson, Lord George, 89–90
Argentina, 218, 244. See also Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Armaments, 47–49. See also carronades
Astor, John Jacob, 164–165, 167, 169
Astoria, 164, 166, 168, 169
Atlantic (British whaling ship), 129, 141–142, 143, 148. See also Essex Junior (formerly Atlantic whaling ship)
Bailey, Theodorus, 271
Bainbridge, William, 15–16, 48, 117, 118, 150
after War of 1812, 267, 269
in Algeria, 26
in early months of War of 1812, 42, 55, 56, 58, 66, 67, 69, 73–80, 82–83, 84
in Quasi-War, 25–26
in war with Tripoli, 23–36
Baker, John, 187
Ball, Sir Andrew, 36
Baltimore (battle at), ix, x, 265
Bantum, James, 258
Barclay (U.S. whaling ship), 120–125, 132, 138, 140, 146, 150
Farragut (David) in command of, 152–153
Galapagos Islands and, 128
Barnewell, Edward, 102
Barney, Joshua, 4–5
Barron, James, 38
Barron, Samuel, 26, 34
Barry, John, xi, 17
Batavia, 53
Baxter, David, 136
Belcher, Thomas, 258
Biddle, James, 30, 274, 275
Black, William, 80, 164, 168, 169
Blake, Joshua, 20
Blakeley, Johnston, 241–242
Blanco (American deputy vice-consul), 109, 223, 261
Bland, Francis, 233, 236
Bligh, William, 60, 61–62, 172–174, 213
Board of Navy Commissioners, 273–274
Boston Gazette, 251
Braganza, Pedro de, 103
Brazil, 66, 70, 72, 73, 82, 84, 103, 111, 112. See also Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Briggs, Enos, 50
Britain, ix–x, 15, 54, 107, 118, 151, 187, 252–253, 263
at end of/after War of 1812, 265, 275
British port of Valletta in Malta, 36, 147–148
carronades and, 48
changing policy of, toward U.S. in War of 1812, ix–x
Chile and, 98
Colnett charts and, 128–129
during American Revolution, 11, 17
France and, 52, 53, 148, 165, 166, 265
health of crews and, 63
impressment and, 10, 18, 37–38
in early months of War of 1812, 14, 41, 43, 44, 67, 70–71, 74–85
in Pacific (during War of 1812), 88, 98, 100–102, 114–115, 117, 119, 120, 122, 136–138, 139, 150, 156, 161, 164–171, 209
Latin America and, 111–112
Madison’s (James) plan for war against, 10
money/gold carried by, 74
mutinies and, 175–177
Napoleon and, 9–10, 15, 119, 151, 263, 265
naval convoys of, 58
Pacific Northwest and, 165, 168–169
Peru and, 124
Portugal and, 66, 71, 103
Quasi-War and, 20
scurvy and warships of, 64
South America and, 113
Spain and, 71, 82, 104, 107, 108, 112, 165, 168
whaling and, 119–125, 129–133, 136–138, 140–144, 147–149, 153–155, 162, 168, 169–170
See also Royal Navy
Brown, Mary, 277
Browne, Thomas, 227
Brudenell, William, 258
Buenos Aires (Argentina), 226, 244
Britain and, 74, 112, 164
in early months of War of 1812, 76, 82
Madison (James) and, 111
Poinsett and, 112–113
Spain and, 106
Byron, Richard, 71
Caddington, Peter, 258–259
Call, William, 232, 242
Calleo (Peruvian port), 122–123, 124, 130
Canada, ix, x, 10, 13, 78–79, 113, 151, 265
Canadian Northwest Company, 165
Cape Frio, 15, 73, 74, 78
Cape Horn, 87–92, 96
Cape Verde Islands, 58–59, 66–68, 69, 241
Caribbean, 104, 134, 174, 176, 274–276
Carrasco, Francisco Antonio, 104–105, 106
Carrera, José Miguel, 106, 108, 218, 244
Lastra and, 109
Poinsett and, 113, 114
Porter (David, Jr.) and, 116
Carrera, Luis, 116, 218
Carron Iron Company, 48
Carronades, 47–49, 51, 54, 58, 85
Castlereagh, Lord, ix–x, 265
Catharine (whaling ship), 147, 150, 164
Chads, Henry, 77
Charles (U.S. whaling ship), 119–120, 122
Charles IV, King, 103, 105
Charleston Navy Yard (Boston), 269, 274
Charlton (British whaling ship), 154
Chauncey, Isaac, 22, 41
Chesapeake-Leopard case, 37–38
Chile
after War of 1812, 267, 277
Downes and, 164
Hillyar and, 243–244, 272
Poinsett in, 113
politics in, 98, 102–108, 109, 113, 114, 218, 228, 244–245
whaling and, 122, 129, 130, 144
See also Concepción (Chile); Coquimbo (Chilean port); Valparaiso (Chile)
China, 52, 169, 210
Christian, Fletcher, 173
Civil War, 18, 39, 269, 270–272
Claiborne, Willia
m, 39
Clapp, Benjamin, 213, 257, 258, 259, 261
Clarke, William, 75
Cleanliness, 62–63, 64
Cochrane, Admiral, 253
Cochrane, Thomas (British captain), 267, 277
Coffin, Isaac, 256
Colnett, James, 128–129, 130, 133
Colt (privateer ship), 102, 122
Columbia (ship), 168
Comet (whaling ship), 157
Concepción (Chile), 85, 100, 108, 109, 139, 141
Conover, Thomas, 71
Continental Navy, 11, 50
Convoy Act (1798), 58
Cook, James, 61, 63–64, 90, 93, 165
Colnett and, 128
Marquesas Islands and, 178, 180, 182, 197
Pacific Northwest and, 168
Coquimbo (Chilean port), 120, 121, 122
Cowan, John S., 123, 138, 158–159, 161
Cowell (sailing master), 137
Cowell, John G., 233, 235–236
Creighton, John O., 269–270
Crockloft Hall, 37
Crowninshield, Benjamin, 255, 262, 274
Da Silvia, Don Luis Maurice, 81
Dacres, James, 14
Darwin, Charles, 133, 157
Dashiell, Richard, 148
Decatur, Stephen, Jr., 14, 15, 118, 242
after capture of Essex (during War of 1812), 252, 253
after War of 1812, 266, 267, 269, 274
at beginning of War of 1812, 41
in war with Tripoli, 23, 33, 34–35
Decatur, Stephen, Sr., xi, 33
Democratic Press, 44
Derby, Elias Hasket, 50, 52
Detroit (battle at), 13
Deux Amis (French ship), 21
D’Ghies, Sidi Mohammed, 32
Diseases, 61, 63–65, 90, 197. See also Scurvy
Dixon, Manley, 74, 79, 80
in early months of War of 1812, 76, 78, 82
in Pacific (during War of 1812), 114, 131, 144, 166–167, 168, 223, 243
Downes, John, 3, 22, 54
after capture of Essex (during War of 1812), 247–251
at end of/after War of 1812, 265, 266–269, 274
in early months of War of 1812, 56, 67, 72, 73, 81
in Pacific (during War of 1812), 95, 102, 120, 124, 128, 132, 135–139, 145–149, 151–154, 161, 163, 169, 181, 186, 192–194, 202, 210, 216–217, 219, 226, 231, 236
returning home from Pacific, 264
Drake, Sir Francis, 98, 145
Duckworth, Sir John T., 6
Dueling, 158–159
Duncan, Andrew, 2–3
Dunn, Robert, 211
Emilia (British whaling ship), 129
Empress of China (ship), 52