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Daring Adventure.
CHAPTER XVII.
A Stirring Year. -- The Bombardment of Tripoli. -- Decatur's Hand-to-Hand Fight. -- Lieut. Trippe's Bravery. -- Lieut. Spence's Bold Deed. -- Somers's Narrow Escape. -- The Floating Mine. -- The Fatal Explosion. -- Close of the War. -- The End.
PART II.
BLUE JACKETS OF 1812.
CHAPTER I.
The Gathering of the War-Cloud. -- The Revolution ended, but the War for Independence yet unfought. -- Outrages upon American Sailors. -- The Right of Search. -- Impressment. -- Boyhood of Commodore Porter. -- Early Days of Commodores Perry and Barney. -- Burning a Privateer. -- The Embargo. -- War Inevitable
CHAPTER II.
War with France. -- The Building of a Navy. -- First Success for the Americans. -- Cutting out the "Sandwich." -- The "Constellation" and "L'Insurgente." -- The "Constellation" and "La Vengeance"
CHAPTER III.
Proposed Reduction of the Navy. -- Renewal of British Outrages. -- The Affair of the "Baltimore." -- Attack on the "Leander." -- Encounter between the "Chesapeake" and "Leopard." -- The "President" and "Little Belt"
CHAPTER IV.
The War on the Ocean. -- Commodore Rodgers's Cruise. -- The Loss of the "Nautilus." -- First Success for the British. -- The Escape of the "Constitution." -- The "Essex" takes the "Alert." -- The "Constitution" and the "Guerriere"
CHAPTER V.
An International Debate. -- The "Wasp" and the "Frolic." -- The "United States" and the "Macedonian." -- Ovations to the Victors
CHAPTER VI.
Bainbridge takes Command of the "Constitution." -- The Defeat of the "Java." -- Close of the Year's Hostilities on the Ocean.
CHAPTER VII.
The War on the Lakes. -- The Attack on Sackett's Harbor. -- Oliver Hazard Perry ordered To Lake Erie. -- The Battle of Put-in-Bay.
CHAPTER VIII.
On the Ocean. -- The "Hornet" sinks the "Peacock." -- The Blockade. -- Adventures of the "Sally." -- Hostilities on Chesapeake Bay. -- The Cruise of the "President".
CHAPTER IX.
Decatur blockaded at New York. -- Attempts to escape through Long Island Sound. -- The Flag-Ship struck by Lightning. -- Torpedoes. -- Fulton's Steam-Frigate. -- Action between the "Chesapeake" and "Shannon".
CHAPTER X.
Cruise of the "Essex." -- A Rich Prize. -- The Mysterious Letter. -- Cape Horn rounded. -- Capture of a Peruvian Privateer. -- Among the British Whalers. -- Porter in Command of a Squadron. -- A Boy Commander. -- The Squadron lays up at Nookaheevah.
CHAPTER XI.
War with the Savages. -- The Campaign against the Typees. -- Departure from Nookaheevah. -- The "Essex" anchors at Valparaiso. -- Arrival of the "Phoebe" and "Cherub." -- They capture the "Essex." -- Porter's Encounter with the "Saturn." -- The Mutiny at Nookaheevah.
CHAPTER XII.
Capture of the "Surveyor." -- Work of the Gunboat Flotilla. -- Operations on Chesapeake Bay. -- Cockburn's Depredations. -- Cruise of the "Argus." -- Her Capture by the "Pelican." -- Battle Between the "Enterprise" and "Boxer." -- End of the Year 1813 on the Ocean.
CHAPTER XIII.
On the Lakes. -- Close of Hostilities on Lakes Erie and Huron. -- Desultory Warfare on Lake Ontario in 1813. -- Hostilities on Lake Ontario in 1814. -- The Battle of Lake Champlain. -- End of the War upon the Lakes.
CHAPTER XIV.
On the Ocean. -- The Work of the Sloops-of-War. -- Loss of the "Frolic." -- Fruitless Cruise of the "Adams." -- The "Peacock" Takes the "Epervier." -- The Cruise of the "Wasp." -- She Captures the "Reindeer." -- Sinks the "Avon." -- Mysterious End of the "Wasp".
CHAPTER XV.
Operations on the New England Coast. -- The Bombardment of Stonington. -- Destruction Of the United States Corvette "Adams." -- Operations on Chesapeake Bay. -- Work of Barney's Barge Flotilla. -- Advance of the British Upon Washington. -- Destruction of the Capitol. -- Operations Against Baltimore. -- Bombardment of Fort McHenry.
CHAPTER XVI.
Desultory Hostilities on the Ocean. -- Attack Upon Fort Bowyer. -- Lafitte the Pirate. -- British Expedition against New Orleans. -- Battle of the Rigolets. -- Attack on New Orleans, and Defeat of the British. -- Work of the Blue-jackets. -- Capture of the Frigate "President." -- The "Constitution" takes The "Cyane" and "Levant." -- The "Hornet" takes the "Penguin." -- End of the War.
CHAPTER XVII.
Privateers and Prisons of the War. -- The "Rossie." -- Salem Privateers. -- The "Gen. Armstrong" gives Battle to a British Squadron, and saves New Orleans. -- Narrative of a British Officer. -- The "Prince de Neufchatel." -- Experiences of American Prisoners of War. -- The End.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Long Peace broken by the War With Mexico. -- Activity of the Navy. -- Captain Stockton's Stratagem. -- The Battle at San Jose. -- The Blockade. -- Instances of Personal Bravery. -- The Loss of the "Truxton." -- Yellow Fever in the Squadron. -- The Navy at Vera Cruz. -- Capture of Alvarado.
CHAPTER XIX.
The Navy in Peace. -- Surveying the Dead Sea. -- Suppressing the Slave Trade. -- The Franklin Relief Expedition. -- Commodore Perry in Japan. -- Signing of the Treaty. -- Trouble in Chinese Waters. --