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Alaska

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Ariel, USS

Armistead, George

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defense of Washington and

resignation of

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Astor, John Jacob

Austerlitz, Battle of

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Java defeated by

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aftermath of

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British withdrawal from

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Barataria Bay, La.

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Beaver Dams, Battle of the

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Benton, Jesse

Benton, Thomas Hart

Berkeley, George Cranfield

Berlin Decree (1806)

Berton, Pierre

Bigelow, Timothy

Black Bird (Potawatomi chief)

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“Bladensburg Races,”

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blockade, British

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Boston Gazette

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Brooke, Arthur

Brown, Jacob

at Chippawa

at Lundy’s Lane

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Burnt Corn, Battle of

Burr, Aaron

Hamilton’s duel with

Jackson and

in plot to seize New Orleans

as vice-president

Wilkinson and

 

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Caledonia, HMS

Caledonian Mercury

Calhoun, John C.

Caller, James

Calvert, Rosalie Stier

Campbell, John B.

Canada

Canada, 1812 invasion of

Cuyahoga lost in

eastern thrust of

Fort Detroit fighting in

Niagara thrust in

plan for

Queenston Heights Battle in

surrender of Fort Mackinac in

western thrust of

see also Niagara frontier campaign

Carden, John Surnam

Carolina, USS

Carroll, Henry

Carroll, William

Cass, Lewis

Castlereagh, Lord

Caughnawaga Indians

Champlain, Lake, Battle of, see Lake

Champlain, Battle of

Chandler, John

Châteauguay, Battle of

Chauncey, Isaac

Cherokee Indians

Cherub, HMS

Chesapeake, USS

Leopard’s encounter with

Shannon compared with

Shannon’s defeat of

Chesapeake Bay

Chickasaw Indians

Chippawa, Battle of

Chippawa, HMS

Chippewa Indians

Choctaw Indians

Chub, HMS

Claiborne, Ferdinand L.

Claiborne, William

Clark, George Rogers

Clay, Green

Clay, Henry

Cleopatra, HMS

Clermont

Clinton, George

Cochrane, Alexander Forester Inglis

in Baltimore expedition

in New Orleans

in Washington expedition

Cochrane, Thomas

Cockburn, George

in Baltimore expedition

in Washington expedition

Cocke, John

Codrington, Edward

Coffee, John

Columbia, USS

Committee of Vigilance and Safety

Confiance, HMS

Congress, U.S.

Embargo Act of 1807 passed by

Henry affair and

military preparedness and

Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 passed by

Northwest Ordinance passed by

repeal of embargo acts by

war debate in

see also House of Representatives U.S.; Senate, U.S.

Congress, USS

Congress of Vienna (1815)

Conjocta Creek

Connecticut

Connecticut Courant

Connecticut Mirror

Constellation, USS

Constitution, U.S.

Constitution, USS

dimensions and armament of

Guerrière defeated by

Java defeated by

“Old Ironsides” sobriquet of

Shannon’s chase of

Constitutional Convention

Craig, James

Crawford, William H.

Creek Indians

Red Sticks confederation of

schism among

Creek War

Fort Mims massacre in

Horseshoe Bend Battle in

Talladega Battle in

Tallushatchee fight in

Crillon, Count de

Croghan, George

Crysler, John

Crysler’s Farm, Battle of

Cuyahoga

 

Dablon, Claude

Dacres, James Richard

Dale, Robert

Dale, Sam

Dallas, Alexander J.

Dane, Nathan

Daquin, Louis

Daviess, Joseph Hamilton

Davis, John

Dearborn, Fort

Dearborn, Henry

Decatur, Stephen

Macedonia captured by

Decatur

De Cew, John

“Defense of Fort McHenry, The” (Key)

Delaware

Delaware Indians

Democratic-Republicans

de Salaberry, Charles

Detroit, Fort

Detroit, HMS (new ship)

Detroit, HMS (original ship)

Diana, HMS

Dickson, Mrs., William

Dobbins, Daniel

“Don’t Give Up the Ship” battle cry

Dousman, Michael

Downie, George

Drummond, Gordon

Ducharme, Dominique

Duke of Gloucester, HMS

Dwight, Theodore

 

Eagle, USS (brig)

Eagle, USS (sloop)

East Florida

Eighty-fifth Foot, British

Eighty-ninth Foot, British

elections, U.S.:

of 1792

of 1796

of 1800

of 1801

of 1803

of 1804

of 1808

of 1810

of 1812

of 1816

of 1820

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of 1828

of 1832

of 1836

of 1840

of 1852

Eleventh Regiment, U.S.

Elliott, Jesse Duncan

Perry controversy and

Embargo Act (1807)

Enterprise, USS

Eppes, John W.

Erebus, HMS

Erie, Fort

Erie, Lake

Erie, Lake, Battle of, see Lake Erie

Battle of

Espiegle, HMS

Essex, USS

Essex Junior, USS

Eustis, William

Ewell, James

 

Fallen Timbers, Battle of

Farragut, David

Favorite, HMS

Federalist Party

demise of

1816 election and

Henry affair and

Federal Republican

Ferdinand VII, King of Spain

Fifth Maryland Volunteer Regiment U.S.

Finch, HMS

Findley, James

First Infantry, U.S.

Fisher, Peter

Fitzgibbon, James

Florida

East

Spain and

West

Floyd, John

Folch, Vincente

Fort, John A.

Fort Dearborn

Fort Detroit

Fort Erie

Fort George

Fort Jackson, Treaty of, (1814)

Fort McHenry

British bombardment of

Fort Meigs, siege of

Fort Mims

Fort Niagara

Fort Oswego

Fort St. Leon

Fort St. Philip

Fort Stephenson

Fort Strother

Fort Washington

Fort Wayne, Treaty of (1809)

Forty-first Foot Regiment, British

Forty-third Light Infantry, British

Forty-fourth Regiment, Irish

Forty-ninth Regiment, British

Foster, Augustus J.

Fourth Infantry, U.S.

Fourteenth Regiment, U.S.

France

Embargo Act of 1807 and

Louisiana Purchase and

Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 and

French and Indian War

French Revolution

Friedland, Battle of

 

Gales, Joseph

Gallatin, Albert

Gambier, Lord

Gaston, William

General Greene, USS

General Hunter, HMS

George, Fort

George III, King of England

Georgia

Gerry, Elbridge

Gerry, Elbridge, Jr.

Ghent, Treaty of (1815)

British delegation to

British procrastination and

British ratification of

Canada as issue in

impressment issue and

Indian Rights and

Orders in Council repeal and

reaction to

Russian mediation offer and

signing of

U.S. delegation to

Wellington and

Gibbs, Samuel

Gleig, George Robert

Glengarry Light Infantry, British

Gordon, Charles

Gordon, James A.

Goulburn, Henry

Grant, Bruce

Great Britain

Chesapeake affair and

defeat of Napoleon and

Embargo Act of 1807 and

Floridas and

impressment practice of

Indian unrest and

Jay’s Treaty and

in Napoleonic Wars

naval blockade enforced by

naval strength of

Northwest Territories and

preparedness of

seizure practice of

Treaty of Ghent ratified by

U.S. declaration of war against

U.S. grievances against

Greene, Pitt Barnaby

Greenville, Treaty of (1795)

Gregg, Alexander

Growler, USS

Grundy, Felix

Guadeloupe

Guerrière, HMS

Constitution’s defeat of

 

Hamilton, Alexander

Burr’s duel with

Hamilton, Paul

Hampton, Wade

Hanks, Porter

Harrison, Benjamin

Harrison, William Henry

Armstrong’s orders to

background of

1812 invasion of Canada and

at the Thames

at Tippecanoe

Treaty of Fort Wayne and

Hartford Convention

conscription issue in

constitutional proposals of

delegates to

demise of Federalists and

report of

secrecy of

Hay, George

Hayne, Robert Y.

Heald, Nathan

Heald, Rebekah

Henley, Robert

Henry, John

Hill, William

Hillyar, James

Hindman, Jacob

Hislop, Thomas

History of the Hartford Convention (Dwight)

History of the United States During the

Administrations of Jefferson and

Madison (Adams)

Hood, Lord

Hornet, USS

Horseshoe Bend (Tohopeka), Battle of

House of Delegates, Virginia

House of Representatives, U.S.

Foreign Relations Committee of

war debate in

Ways and Means Committee of

Houston, Sam

Hughes, Christopher

Hull, Abraham F.

Hull, Isaac

Guerrière captured by

Hull, Joseph

Hull, William

Humphreys, Salusbury P.

Hunter, Mary

Huron Indians

 

Indiana

Indians

Ghent peace talks and

in Niagara campaign

at Tippecanoe

Treaty of Fort Wayne and

western expansion and

see also specific tribes

Ingersoll, Charles J.

Intrepid, USS

Iphigenia, HMS

Irvine, Robert

Izard, George

 

Jackson, Andrew

Benton’s conflict with

Burr’s plot and

in Creek War

at Horseshoe Bend

in Natchez foray

at New Orleans

nickname of

Pensacola captured by

political career of

at Talladega

Wilkinson and

Jackson, Fort, Treaty of, (1814)

Jackson, Rachel

Java, HMS

Constitution’s defeat of

Jay’s Treaty (1794)

Jefferson, Thomas

on Chesapeake affair

Embargo Act of 1807 and

Louisiana Purchase and

Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 and

Jena, Battle of

Jesup, Thomas S.

Johnson, James

Johnson, Richard Mentor

Jomini, Antoine Henri

Jones, John Paul

Jones, William

Junaluska (Cherokee chief)

 

Keane, John

Kentucky

Ketchum, Daniel

Key, Francis Scott

Kickapoo Indians

King, Rufus

 

Lacoste, Pierre

Lady Prevost, HMS

Lafayette, Marquis de

Lafitte, Jean

Lafitte, Pierre

Lake Champlain, Battle of

aftermath of

assessment of

British fleet in

British plan for

British surrender in

casualties in

U.S. deployment in

U.S. fleet in

Lake Erie

Lake Erie, Battle of

British surrender in

casualties in

onset of

Perry-Elliott controversy and

Perry’s report on

Lake Ontario

Lambert, Henry

Lambert, John

Lawrence, James

background of

death of

Peacock defeated by

Shannon’s defeat of

Lawrence, USS

Leech, Samuel

Leipzig, Battle of

Leopard, HMS

Lexington Reporter

Library of Congress

Lincoln, Abraham

Linnet, HMS

Lion, HMS

Little Belt, HMS

Little Belt, HMS (Lake Erie sloop)

Little Turtle (Miami chief)

Little Warrior (Creek warrior)

Liverpool, Lord

Lockyer, Nicholas

London Morning Chronicle

London Statesman

London Times

Louisiana, USS

Louisiana (state)

Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Territory

Lowell, John

Lundy’s Lane, Battle of

 

McArthur, Duncan

McClellan, George B.

McClure, George

Macdonell, George

Macdonough, Thomas

Macedonian, HMS

McHenry, Fort

British bombardment of

McHenry, James

McKee, Mrs. Alex

Mackinac Island

Macomb, Alexander

McQueen, Peter

Madison, Dolley

Madison, James

and British raid on Washington

cabinet changes by

Henry affair and

war debate and

Madison, USS

Madison administration

Mahan, Alfred Thayer

Maine

manifest destiny

Marine Corps, U.S.

Marion, Francis

Marquette, Jacques

Mars, Stephen

Marshall, John

Martin, Daniel

Martinique

Massachusetts

Meigs, Fort, siege of

Meigs, Return Jonathan

Melampus, HMS

Mexico

Miami Indians

Milan

Milan Decree (1807)

Miller, James

Mims, Fort

Minden

Mohawk Indians

Monroe, James

Monroe Doctrine

Montagu, HMS

Montgomery, Lemuel P.

Montgomery, Richard

Morgan, David

Morris, Charles

Morrison, Joseph W.

Muco Indians

Mullens, Thomas

Murray, Anthony

Murray, John

 

Nantucket Island

Napoleon I, Emperor of France

Berlin and Milan Decrees of

downfall of

Louisiana Purchase and

Napoleonic wars

allied victory in

Nashville Whig

national debt

National Intelligencer

Naval Chronicle

Naval War of 1812, The (Roosevelt)

Navy Department, U.S.

Nelson, Horatio

Newark, Ont., burning of

New England

British blockade and

Constitution-Guerrière battle and

Henry affair and

regional discontent in

see also Hartford Convention New Hampshire

New Orleans, Battle of

assessment of

British advance in

British assault in

British attack plan in

British retreat in

casualties in

first phase of

importance of

lack of secrecy and

Lafitte and

routes to

U.S. defenses in

U.S. deployment in

New York

New York Evening Post

New York Gazette

Niagara, Fort

Niagara, USS

Niagara campaign of 1814

Chippawa fight in

Fort Erie besieged in

Lundy’s Lane Battle in

supplies sold to Canada by

Tucker’s raid in

Niagara frontier

Battle of Crysler’s farm in

Battle of Lake Erie in, see Lake

Erie, Battle of

Battle of the Thames in

Beaver Dams Battle in

fall of Fort Niagara in

Fort George in

guerrilla warfare in

Indians in

manpower shortage in

Newark burned in

St. Lawrence campaign in

Secord’s legendary walk in

shipbuilding race in

siege of Fort Miegs in

York raid in

Nicholas, Robert C.

Nicholas, Wilson Cary

Nicholson, Joseph H.

Niles, Hezekiah

Niles’ Weekly Register

Ninth Infantry, U.S.

Ninety–third Highlanders, British

Noble, Patrick

Nolte (merchant)

Non-Intercourse Act (1809)

North Carolina

Northumberland, HMS

Northwest Ordinance (1787)

Northwest Territory

Tippecanoe Battle and

Nourse, Joseph

nullification debate

 

O’Brian, Patrick

Ohio

Ohio, USS

100th Foot Regiment, British

103rd Foot Regiment, British

Oneida, USS

Ontario, Lake

Orders in Council

repeal of

Oregon

Oswego, Fort

Otis, Harrison Gray

Ottawa Indians

Overton, John

Owen, Abraham

 

Pakenham, Edward

Paris, Treaty of (1783)

Parliament, British

Patent Office, U.S.

Patterson, Daniel T.

Peacock, HMS

Peake, William

Pearson, Thomas

Pennsylvania

Pérez, Cayetano

Perkins, Bradford

Perry, Oliver Hazard

death of

Elliott controversy and

fleet of

at Lake Erie

Lawrence’s death reaction of

Presque Isle bar crossed by

Philadelphia, USS

Phoebe, HMS

Piankeshaw Indians

Pickering, Timothy

Pickersgill, Caroline

Pickersgill, Mary Young

Pierce, Franklin

Pike, Zebulon

Pinckney, Charles

Plattsburgh, Battle of, see Lake Champlain, Battle of

Pontiac (Ottawa chief)

Porcupine, USS

Port Dover

Porter, David

Porter, Moses

Porter, Peter B.

Potawatomi Indians

Pothier, Toussaint

Power, Manley

Preble, USS

President, USS

Prevost, George

at Lake Champlain

Pring, Daniel

Proctor, Henry

Prophet (Tenskwatawa)

Purdy, Robert

Pushmataha (Choctaw chief)

 

Quebec, Battle of

Queen Charlotte, HMS

Queenston Heights, Battle of

Randolph, John

Read, George C.

Red Eagle (Creek chief), see Weatherford, William

Red Sticks confederation

Remini, Robert

Rennie, Robert

Republican Party

Retaliation, USS

Revenge, USS

Rhode Island

Riall, Phineas

right of deposit

Ripley, Eleazar W.

 

River Raisin, fight at

Roberts, Charles

Robertson, Henry

Robinson, Frederick

Rodgers, John

Rogers, John

Roosevelt, Theodore

Ross, Elizabeth

Ross, George

Ross, Robert

in Baltimore expedition

death of

in Washington expedition

Royal Navy

Royal Newfoundland Regiment

British

Royal Scots Regiment, British

Russell, Jonathan

Russia

 

St. Leon, Fort

St. Philip, Fort

Salem (Mass.) Gazette

Saratoga, Battle of

Saratoga, USS

Sargent, Daniel

Sawyer, Herbert

Scorpion, USS

Scott, Hercules

Scott, Winfield

fate of

at Fort George

at Lundy’s Lane

in Niagara campaign

Sea Horse, HMS

Second Artillery Regiment, U.S.

Second Dragoons, U.S.

Secord, James

Secord, Laura

Senate, U.S.

Foreign Relations Committee of

Treaty of Ghent ratified by

war debate in

Serapis, HMS

Seventh Fusiliers, British

Seven Years’ War

Shabonee (Potawatomi chief)

Shannon, HMS

Chesapeake compared with

Chesapeake defeated by

Constitution chased by

Shawnee Indians

Sheaffe, Roger Hale

Shelby, Isaac

Shenandoah, CSS

Sherman, Roger Minot

Short, William

Sinclair, Patrick

Sir Isaac Brock, HMS

Skinner, John S.

Smith, Harry

Smith, Samuel

Smith, Sidney

Smyth, Alexander

Somers, USS

Sophia, HMS

South Carolina

Spain

Floridas and

Wilkinson as spy for

Spencer, Ambrose

“Star-Spangled Banner, The” (Key)

State Department, U.S.

Stephenson, Fort

Stokoe, Thomas

Stoney Creek, Battle of

Strahan, John

Street, Mrs. Samuel

Stricker, John

Strother, Fort

Stuart, Gilbert

Sumter, Thomas

 

Talladega, Battle of

Tallushatchee, fight at

Taylor, Waller

Taylor, Zachary

Tecumseh (Shawnee chief)

death of

at Fort Meigs

at the Thames

at Tippecanoe

U.S. invasion of Canada and

Tennessee

Tenskwatawa (Prophet)

Texas

Thames River, Battle of

Third Regiment, U.S.

Thirteen Infantry Regiment, U.S.

Thirty-ninth Regiment, U.S.

Thornton, William (colonel)

Thornton, William (doctor)

Ticonderoga, USS

Tigress, USS

Times (London)

Tippecanoe, Battle of

Todd, John

Tohopeka, see Horseshoe Bend Battle of

Tompkins, Daniel

Tonnant, HMS

Trafalgar, Battle of

Treasury Department, U.S.

Tripoli

Trippe, USS

Troup, George M.

Tucker, Glenn

Tucker, John

Twentieth Foot, British

Twenty-first Infantry, U.S.

Twenty-fifth Foot, British

Twenty-fifth Infantry, U.S.

Tyler, John

 

United States, in 1812

United States, USS

Macedonian defeated by

United States Gazette

United States Navy

 

Van Buren, Martin

Van Horne, Thomas

Van Rensselaer, Solomon

Van Rensselaer, Stephen

Vermont

Villeré, Gabriel

Villeré, Jacques

Vincent, John

Virginia

 

Wallace, Robert

Ward, Samuel

War Department, U.S.

Ware, William

war hawks

War of 1812

assessment of

lack of preparation for

sense of nationhood and

U.S. declaration of war in

Warren, John B.

Washington, Fort

Washington, George

Washington, British expedition against

Bladensburg fight in

British advance in

British reaction to

Fort Washington captured in

Gallatin’s house burned in

government buildings burned in

President’s House burned in

ramifications of

U.S. defenses in

Washington administration

Wasp, USS

Waterloo, Battle of

Wayne, Fort, Treaty of (1809)

Wayne, “Mad” Anthony

Weatherford, William (Red Eagle)

Webster, Daniel

Webster, Noah

Weems, Philip

Wellington, Arthur, Duke of

Ghent negotiations and

North America command declined by

Wells, William

West, Richard E.

West Florida

Jackson in

Wilkinson in

Whig Party

Wilkinson, James

Burr’s plot and

at Crysler’s Farm

fate of

Jackson and

in St. Lawrence campaign

as spy for Spain

in West Florida expedition

William

Willson, Deborah

Wilson, John

Winchester, James

Winder, Levin

Winder, William H.

Winnebago Indians

Wolfe, James

Wood, Eleazer

Wool, John E.

Wounded Knee, Battle of

Wyandot Indians

 

Yarnall, James

Yeo, James

York, raid on

You, Dominique