4;
on the _United States_, 114, 115;
on the _President_, 148, 149;
Defiance, Fort, 24
Delaware Bay, blockade of, 185
Derby, Captain John, 218
Detroit, 64;
first campaign from, 11, 14;
Hull at, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
mutiny at, 15;
surrender of, 17-18, 19, 20, 22, 106-07;
in British hands, 31;
Procter abandons, 42;
Harrison returns to, 45
_Detroit_ (brig), taken from Hull, 38;
Elliott captures, 39-40
_Detroit_ (British ship), 54, 56, 57, 60
Downes, Lieutenant John, 155, 156
Downie, Captain George, British officer, 178, 183
Drummond, General Sir George Gordon, 172

_Eagle_ (brig), 180
Eastham (Mass.), war levy, 188
Eastport (Me.), captured, 187
Elliott, Lieutenant J. D., builds fleet on Lake Erie, 38, 48;
captures _Caledonia_ and _Detroit_, 39-40;
with Perry, 54, 58
_Endymion_ (British frigate), 150
_Enterprise_ (brig), encounter with _Boxer_, 139-40
_Epervier_ (British brig), fight with _Peacock_, 144
Erie, Barclay off, 52;
_see also_ Presqu' Isle
Erie, Fort, Elliott captures ships near, 39;
Brock at, 65;
Americans capture, 168;
Scott and Brown occupy, 173
Erie, Lake, Hull's schooner captured on, 12;
Perry on, 21, 40 _et seq._;
Harrison on shores of, 24, 30;
Chauncey in command on, 47, 48
_Essex_ (frigate), 141, 147;
last cruise, 151 _et seq._;
building of, 153;
capture by Hillyar, 161-65
_Essex, Junior_ (cruiser), 156, 159
Eustis, William, Secretary of War, 24

Faneuil Hall, banquet for Hull at, 106
Farragut, Admiral D. G., 181;
motto, 46;
cited, _59_;
midshipman on _Essex_, 161-62
_Finch_ (British schooner), 180
Florida, West, Jackson and, 200
France, American feeling toward, 3;
as maritime enemy, 151-52, 154
Fredericktown burned, 186
"Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," 3, 91, 137
Frenchtown, _see_ Raisin River
_Frolic_ (British brig), encounter with _Wasp_, 108-13

Galapagos Islands, _Essex_ at, 155
Gallatin, Albert, quoted, 219-220
George, Fort, British fort, 67;
evacuated by British, 74-75;
retaken, 87
Georgia, Indians aroused in, 201
_Georgiana_ (British whaling ship), _Essex_ captures, 155;
renamed _Essex, Junior_, 156
Great Britain, and free sea, 2-3;
Indian wars, 4;
war declared on (1812), 4;
and Indians, 10;
and Napoleon, 124;
blockading measures, 124-25
Great Lakes, British on, 38
_Guerriere_ (British frigate), 2, 96;
encounter with _Constitution_, 100-07, 108, 122-23;
celebration of capture, 116

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