aty of, with Great Britain in 1814 was signed at Ghent,
Belgium, on Christmas eve, 1814, about two weeks before the
battle of New Orleans, 198.

Pennsylvania called on for volunteers, 112.

Perry, Commodore, the hero of the battle of Lake Erie, 202.

Petersburg, Lord Cornwallis arrives at, 123.

Philadelphia, the first Continental Congress at, 140.
the second Continental Congress at, 140.
the Constitution drafted at, in the Old State House, 145.
the visit of Lafayette to, 210.

Philadelphia, the frigate, the burning of, 156-168.
the events leading to the capture of, 156-159.
towed into the harbor of Tripoli, 159.
plans made for retaking, 160.
Decatur's plan for the retaking of, 161.
Decatur starts for the recapture of, 162.
the capture and the burning of, 166.

Phillips, Samuel, carries Ferguson's threat to the backwoodsmen, 92.

Pickens, Andrew, a leader in the South, 91.
at the battle of Cowpens, 117.

Pinckneys, the two brilliant, Charles and Thomas, of South Carolina,
at the Philadelphia convention, 146.

Pirates, the, on the African coast, 156, 170.

Pitt, Fort, 5. See the map in Chapter I.

Point Levi, the arrival of Arnold at, 29.

Pompey, Wayne's guide at Stony Point, 84.

Poor Richard's Almanac, a quotation from, 157.

Portland, Maine, Lafayette visits, 206.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, "Old Ironsides" at, 183.
Lafayette visits, 206.

Preble, Commodore, in command of our fleet in the Mediterranean, 158,
161, 172.
sails for Sicily, 160.
the quick temper of, 173.

Prescott, General, captured by Colonel Barton, 143.

Prescott, William, at the battle of Bunker Hill, 213.

Q

Quebec, an expedition planned against, 20.
the "Gibraltar of America," 30.
reached by Arnold's expedition, 30.
the siege of, 31.
the midnight attack on, 32.
the siege of, raised, 35.
Morgan at, 34, 111, 113.

Quincy, Massachusetts, Lafayette visits, to see John Adams, 209.

R

Randolph, Edmund, at the Philadelphia convention, 147.
defends the Constitution, 154.

Rappahannock River, the, Washington throws across, 64.

Rawdon, Lord, in South Carolina, 126.

Red Jacket, the Indian chief, meets Lafayette, 204.

Rennie, Colonel, a British commander at the battle of New Orleans,
195.

Representatives in Congress, 149.

Revere, Paul, furnishes the copper used in "Old Ironsides," 172.

Rhode Island, 142, 147.
sends no delegates to Philadelp