OLUME 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

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 gun