the _Wasp_, 111
_La Vengeance_ (French ship) and _Constellation_, 93
Lawrence, Captain James, of the _Chesapeake_, 96, 127-28, 129-30;
on the _Hornet_, 126, 127;
fights _Shannon_, 130-136;
death, 131, 133, 135;
account of funeral, 136-37
_Lawrence_ (brig), 49, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58
_Leopard_ and _Chesapeake_, 91, 142
_Levant_ (British sloop-of-war), fight with _Constitution_, 147
Lewis, General Morgan, 75-76, 83
_Linnet_ (British brig), 180
_L'Insurgente_ (French ship) and _Constellation_, 92
Long Island Sound, British fleet in, 188
Ludlow, Lieutenant A. C, of the _Chesapeake_, 133,136, 137
Lundy's Lane, battle, 2, 171-173

McArthur, Colonel, 18
Macdonough, Commodore Thomas, on Lake Champlain, 166, 167, 171, 178, 179-84
_Macedonian_ (British frigate), Decatur captures, 114-16, 142;
as American frigate, 141
McHenry, Fort, 197, 198
Mackinac, fall of, 19, 20
Mackinaw, _see_ Mackinac
M'Knight, Lieutenant, S. D., of the _Essex_, 163
Macomb, Brigadier General Alexander, 177
Madison, James, and Hull, 12, 19;
reviews troops, 191;
at battle of Bladensburg, 192;
policy as to West Florida, 200
Mahan, Captain A. T., quoted, 128
Maine, British raids, 187
Malden (Amherstburg), 43;
_see also_ Amherstburg
Massachusetts, attitude toward War of 1812, 7, 91
Maumee Rapids, Harrison at, 30
Maumee River, Hull at, 12
Meigs, Fort, massacre at, 20, 32;
built, 30;
Procter besieges, 31-32, 36;
Harrison again at, 33
Merchant marine, 93
Miller, Captain, at battle of Bladensburg, 195
Miller, Colonel John, 17, 33
Mims, Samuel, 202
Mims, Fort, massacre, 202
Mississippi Valley and invasion of Florida, 200
Mobile, Jackson at, 204, 206-207, 208
Montreal, plan of attack, 14;
campaign against, 71, 82-87
Moraviantown, Procter goes to, 42
Morris, Lieutenant Charles, on the _Constitution_, 101, 107
Mulcaster, Captain W. H., 83
Murray, Colonel, British officer, 87

Napoleon, Great Britain and, 2;
offenses against American commerce, 8
Navy, 8-9,38;
on Lake Erie, 46 _et seq._;
on the sea, 89 _et seq._;
augmented by private subscriptions, 152;
victory on Lake Champlain, 166 _et seq._
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount, quoted, 141
New England, attitude toward War of 1812, 7-8;
British raids in, 187-88
New Orleans, battle of, 166, 175, 208-18, 219
New York, apprehension in, 148
Niagara, campaign planned, 13-14;
American forces at, 14-15;
campaign, 64 _et seq._;
renewal of struggle for region of (1814