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357; instructions to, for New Orleans expedition, 385-386; sanguine expectations of, after capture of Washington, 424-425; succeeded by Sir Edward Pakenham for New Orleans expedition, 392, 427. _Rottenburg, De._ British general in command on Niagara frontier June, 1813, ii. 69; declines to detach to aid of Procter and Barclay on Lake Erie, 69; proceeds to Kingston, with re-enforcements, in anticipation of American attack, 110-111; despatches detachment in pursuit of Wilkinson's movement down the St. Lawrence, 114. _Russell, Jonathan._ American _charge d'affaires_ in France, after Armstrong's departure, i. 247; correspondence with American and French Governments relative to the alleged repeal of the French Decrees, quoted, 247, 267, 268; transferred as _charge_ to London, 264; correspondence as such with American and British Governments, quoted, 264, 266, 272-278; opinion of the alleged French Decree of April 28, 1811, 272, 276; negotiation with Castlereagh, after declaration of war, looking to suspension of hostilities, ii. 409-411; appointed additional peace commissioner at Ghent, 413. _Russia._ Offers in 1812 mediation between Great Britain and United States, ii. 411; accepted by United States, but rejected by Great Britain, 412; attitude of Czar towards America, 423-124, 428. _Sackett's Harbor._ American naval station on Lake Ontario. Conditions at, i. 302, 309, 363, 374, 376; ii. 37, 38, 50, 104-106, 110-113, 119, 276, 278, 280, 281, 291, 304; ships constructed at, 364, 366, 377; ii. 49, 276, 283, 291, 318 (note); attack upon, by Prevost and Yeo, ii. 42-45; Brown's march from, to Niagara frontier, 281; Yeo's blockade of, 285, abandoned, 290; Izard's march to, on way to support Brown at Niagara, 319-320; Chauncey retires finally to, after launch of the British "St. Lawrence," 323; destruction of, prescribed to Prevost by instructions, in 1814, 329, 362; Yeo's observations at, 318 (note). _Seaboard, United States._ Conditions on, i. 296-298, 300, 310-313, 360, 393, 404-406; ii. 15-19, 24-27, 127-128, 148-150, 152-155, 202; Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, 1813, ii. 155-178; three divisions of the seaboard, Northern, Middle, and Southern, 178; distinctive topographical features of each, 178, 179, 183, 184, 193, 195; proportionate effect of the war upon each, with reasons therefor, 179-183;
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