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New York: Knopf, 1955.

Tucker, Glenn.
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.

Turnbull, Archibald Douglas.
Commodore David Porter, 1780–1843.
New York: Century Company, 1929.

Valle, James E.
Rocks and Shoals: Order and Discipline in the Old Navy, 1800–1861.
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980.

Villiers, Alan.
Captain James Cook.
New York: Penguin, 1969.

Whipple, A.B.C.
Yankee Whalers in the South Seas.
New York: Doubleday, 1954.

Williams, Frances L.
Matthew Fontaine Maury: Scientist of the Sea
. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963.

Williams, Glyn C.
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New York: Viking, 1999.

______.
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Withey, Lynne.
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Woodard, Colin.
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.”
Essex Institute Historical Collections
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Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
19 (1901).

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American Historical Review
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Maryland Historical Magazine
35 (1940).

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.”
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.”
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Paullin, Charles O. “Father of Admiral Farragut.”
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(January 1930).

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Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
12 (1888).

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NDEX

Abascal, José Fernando de,
122

Adams, David,
124
,
190
,
241

Adams, John,
12
,
19
,
21
,
49

Adams, John Quincy,
111
,
275–278

Adams, Mr. (chaplain),
139
,
140
,
142
,
149
,
235

Adonis
(Swedish ship),
241
,
242

Albatross
(U.S. trader ship),
210
,
213

Alcohol,
146–147
,
155
.
See also
rum

Alexander I (Russian tsar),
10
,
13
,
111

Algeria,
12
,
23
,
26
,
266
,
277

Algiers,
26
,
34
,
266

American Revolution

       
Britain in,
17

       
carronades in,
48

       
Chile and,
105

       
Decatur (Stephen, Sr.) in,
33

       
Derby (Elias Hasket) in,
52

       
Farragut (George) in,
39

       
Madison (James) on,
263

       
Morris (Robert) and,
52

       
ships during,
10–11
,
50

       
Talbot in,
21

       
Truxtun in,
19

       
U.S. Navy and,
12

An Exposition of the Facts and Circumstances which Justified the Expedition to Foxardo
(pamphlet by David Porter, Jr.),
276

Anderson, Evelina.
See
Porter, Evelina

Anderson, Joseph,
276

Anderson, Thomas,
38

Anderson, William,
56

Animals,
69–70
,
94
,
99
,
134
,
157–158

Anson, Lord George,
89–90

Argentina,
218
,
244
.
See also
Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Armaments,
47–49
.
See also
carronades

Astor, John Jacob,
164–165
,
167
,
169

Astoria,
164
,
166
,
168
,
169

Atlantic
(British whaling ship),
129
,
141–142
,
143
,
148
.
See also
Essex Junior
(formerly
Atlantic
whaling ship)

Bailey, Theodorus,
271

Bainbridge, William,
15–16
,
48
,
117
,
118
,
150

       
after War of 1812,
267
,
269

       
in Algeria,
26

       
in early months of War of 1812,
42
,
55
,
56
,
58
,
66
,
67
,
69
,
73–80
,
82–83
,
84

       
in Quasi-War,
25–26

       
in war with Tripoli,
23–36

Baker, John,
187

Ball, Sir Andrew,
36

Baltimore (battle at),
ix
,
x
,
265

Bantum, James,
258

Barclay
(U.S. whaling ship),
120–125
,
132
,
138
,
140
,
146
,
150

       
Farragut (David) in command of,
152–153

       
Galapagos Islands and,
128

Barnewell, Edward,
102

Barney, Joshua,
4–5

Barron, James,
38

Barron, Samuel,
26
,
34

Barry, John,
xi
,
17

Batavia,
53

Baxter, David,
136

Belcher, Thomas,
258

Biddle, James,
30
,
274
,
275

Black, William,
80
,
164
,
168
,
169

Blake, Joshua,
20

Blakeley, Johnston,
241–242

Blanco (American deputy vice-consul),
109
,
223
,
261

Bland, Francis,
233
,
236

Bligh, William,
60
,
61–62
,
172–174
,
213

Board of Navy Commissioners,
273–274

Boston Gazette
,
251

Braganza, Pedro de,
103

Brazil,
66
,
70
,
72
,
73
,
82
,
84
,
103
,
111
,
112
.
See also
Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Briggs, Enos,
50

Britain,
ix–x
,
15
,
54
,
107
,
118
,
151
,
187
,
252–253
,
263

       
at end of/after War of 1812,
265
,
275

       
British port of Valletta in Malta,
36
,
147–148

       
carronades and,
48

       
changing policy of, toward U.S. in War of 1812,
ix–x

       
Chile and,
98

       
Colnett charts and,
128–129

       
during American Revolution,
11
,
17

       
France and,
52
,
53
,
148
,
165
,
166
,
265

       
health of crews and,
63

       
impressment and,
10
,
18
,
37–38

       
in early months of War of 1812,
14
,
41
,
43
,
44
,
67
,
70–71
,
74–85

       
in Pacific (during War of 1812),
88
,
98
,
100–102
,
114–115
,
117
,
119
,
120
,
122
,
136–138
,
139
,
150
,
156
,
161
,
164–171
,
209

       
Latin America and,
111–112

       
Madison's (James) plan for war against,
10

       
money/gold carried by,
74

       
mutinies and,
175–177

       
Napoleon and,
9–10
,
15
,
119
,
151
,
263
,
265

       
naval convoys of,
58

       
Pacific Northwest and,
165
,
168–169

       
Peru and,
124

       
Portugal and,
66
,
71
,
103

       
Quasi-War and,
20

       
scurvy and warships of,
64

       
South America and,
113