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 Abaellino (privateer), 169 Abbate, Lorenzo, 70 Adams (ship), 33, 36 Adams, John, 1, 3,7, 15–16, 20 Adams, John Quincy, 1, 3, 6–7 158, 168, 184– 85, 193, 198, 205, 219, 221 Adams, Louisa Catherine, 3–4, 7, 194 Addison, Thomas, 98–99 Adonis (Swedish brig), 205 Acasta (frigate), 131–32 Algiers, Deys of Ali, 166 Omar, 166–67 Algiers, war with (1815), 160–61, 163–68, 177–78, 201 Allen, William Henry on Argus, 130–31, 139 on Chesapeake, 88–89, with Decatur, 96–97, 100 and Macedonian, 117–18, 119, 125–26 “Anacreon in Heaven,” 181–83 Armstrong, John 148 Argus (brig), 39–41, 69, 129–30, 139 Babbit, Fitz-Henry, 155 Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 14–15 Bainbridge, Joseph, 37–38, 47, 61, 209 Bainbridge, William background of and first Mediterranean cruise, 28–34, 68 on Barron’s court-martial, 96, commands Algerian squadron (1815), 161–63, 172–76 commands Constitution, 114 and capture of Philadelphia, 41–43, 45 criticizes Decatur, 122–23 and Decatur-Barron duel, 208–10, 212– 13, 216–17 describes Philadelphia burning, 52 injured in bombardent, 67 mentioned, 181, 187 Baldwin, Henry, 6, 220 Ball, Alexander, 38, 69 Ballard, Henry, 4 Baltimore, 150, 179–80 Bancroft, George, 194 Banning, Freeborn, 17, 23 Barlow, Joel, 5, 104 Barron, James and Chesapeake incident, 85–90, 94–97, duel with Decatur, 3–4, 200–8, 210, 212– 16, 224 n. 7 serves under Barry, 17, 21, 2–23 and Tripolitan war, 28, 34, 38, 71 Barron, Samuel, 24, 28, 65, 71, 77, 85 Barry, John, 14–16, 18–23 Barton, William, 101–2, 197 Bayard, James, 158 Beale’s Hotel, 212 Bedinger, Daniel, 83 Belvidera (British frigate), 113–14 Berkeley, Sir George Canfield, 87, 91 Berlin, Maryland, 10 Bertozzi, Cecilia Fontana, 73 Betsey (merchant brig), 29 Biddle, James, 130–31, 135–37, 139, 142, 145, 152, 181–82, 220 Biddle, William, 142 Bingham, Arthur Batt, 107–8 Binns, John, 135–36, 142 Bladensburg, Maryland, 208, 212 Blake, Joseph, 40, 60 “blue light Federalists,” 135 Board of Naval Commissioners. See Naval Commissioners, Board of Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 76 Bonaparte, Jerome, 76 Bonaparte, Joseph, 178 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 76 Boyd, Walter, 43–44, 226–27 n. 17 Bradish, Mrs., boarding house, 162 British government, 86–87, 91, 107 British sailors, desertions of, 84–87, 97–98, 110 Bromley, R. H., 97–98 Broom, James, 95 Brown, Adam, 139 Brown, Elias, 98 Brown, Henry. See Fleishman, Henry Brown, Jacob, 4 Brown, William, 140–41 Bullus, John, 15, 136 Burbeck, Henry, 133 Burr, Aaron, 81–82, 94, 208 247 248 index Cabell, William, 91 Caldwell, James, 17, 64–65 Calhoun, Elizabeth, 2–4 Calhoun, Floride, 2–4, 194 Calhoun, John Caldwell, 2–4 Campbell, Hugh, 97 Canning, Stratford, 218 Carden, John S., 110–11, 115–20, 126–27, 132 Carmick, Daniel, 34–35 Carroll, Catherine. See Harper, Kitty Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, 1, 75, 217– 18 Cassin, Stephen, 4–5 Catalano, Salvatore, 46, 47, 49–50, 218, 221 Causten, John, 165, 168 Chauncey, Isaac, 5, 67, 94, 105, 109, 113, 125, 129, 146, 209 Chesapeake (frigate), 33, 38, 84–92, 110, 139– 41, 201, 206–7 Chesapeake Bay, defenses, 111, 188 Child, William, 189–90 Chippewa, 174 Clark, Robert, 67 Clay, Henry, 158, 178, 218–19 Clinton, DeWitt, 124, 125 Clinton, George, 3 Cochrane, Alexander, 158 Cochran, James, 37–38, 209 Cochran, Thomas, 19 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 55–56, 185, 220, 228 n. 3 Colden, Cadwallader, 105, 139 Columbus (ship), 208, 210 Congress (frigate), 65, 74, 75, 114–15 Constellation (frigate), 33–34, 65, 121, 162– 66 Constitution (frigate), 21, 33, 39–45, 58, 63, 69–71, 72, 76, 114, 122–23, 157, 217 Constitution (steamship), 220 Cooper, James Fenimore, 217 Cope, Thomas, 77 courts-martial: and Bainbridge, 89; and Barron 94–97, 200–201; and loss of Chesapeake , 140–41; and Perry-Heath, 208 courts of inquiry: and Barron, 216; and Decatur , 160; and Porter, 145–46, 147 Cowdery, Jonathan, 45, 52 Cox, William S., 140–41 Crane, William, 98 Crawford, William, 6, 131, 198 Creamer, Jack, 115–16, 119, 154 Creighton, John, 88 Crescent (frigate), 28 Crocillo, Pietro Francisco, 45 Crump, Richard, 93, 95 Cutter, William, 102 Dale, Richard, 21, 28–29 Dale, Richard P., 155 Darby, John, 60, 66 Davie, William R., 24 Davis, George, 56–57 Dearborn, Henry, 139, 163 Decatur, Ann Pine (mother), 10–12,13, 20, 112 Decatur, Ann Pine (sister), 10, 14, 112 Decatur, Étienne (grandfather), 9, 224 n. 1 Decatur...

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