Perry, Oliver Hazard, battle of Lake Erie, 156; boyhood, 158; at Lake Erie, 160; command, 163; shifts flag, 164; victory, 167; message, 169; losses, 170; treatment of prisoners, 171; promotion, 171; prize money, 171. Petersburg, siege of, 327. _Petrel_ in Spanish War, 351. Pettigrew, J. J., and Anderson, 254; Pickett’s charge, 324. Philadelphia, meeting of colonial delegates (1774), 94. Philippine Islands, United States’ possession, 11. Pickens, F. W., request for Sumter, 248; removal to Sumter, 254. Pickett, G. E., charge at Gettysburg, 318, 323, 324. Pico, Pio, faction in California, 190. Pierce, Franklin, elected President, 230. Pigot, Sir Robert, at Bunker Hill, 106. Pillow, Fort, storming, 327. Pillow, Gideon J., at Vera Cruz, 208; at Contreras, 211; at Churubusco, 215. Pinckney, Castle, condition, 239; occupied by Anderson, 247; occupied by state forces, 255. Pitcairn, Major, shot at Breed’s Hill, 116. Pitt, Fort, built, 74. Pitt, William, in British cabinet, 63; naval activity, 64, 66; demands enforcement of restrictive laws in the colonies, 83. Pizarro, conquest of Peru, 12. Plains of Abraham, battle, 75. Plassey, battle of, 64. Pleasonton, Alfred, in Gettysburg campaign, 309. Pocanokets. _See_ Wampanoags. Polk, James K., elected President, 181; war message, 188; Texas boundary, 188; Slidell’s mission, 189; aggressiveness, 189; policy of conquering a peace, 189; plan of operations, 189, 190, 194; friction, 192; Trist, 196; accepts treaty, 197; Cuba, 347. Ponce de Leon, Juan, voyage to Florida, 12. Pomeroy, Seth, at Bunker Hill, 108, 117. Pometacom. _See_ King Philip. Poor, Enoch, at Behmus’ Heights, 136. Porter, David D., at the battle of New Orleans, 292; Vicksburg campaign, 300, 304_n_ Porter, Fitz-John, report on Charleston harbor forts, 242. Porter, Horace, at Appomattox, 336, 337. Port Gibson, battle, 302. Port Hudson, Banks’ expedition against, 305. Port Royal, in Acadia, foundation, 63. Port Royal, Nova Scotia, captured, 63. _Preble_ at Lake George, 176, 179. Prescott, Lieutenant, nephew of Colonel Prescott, killed at battle of Bunker Hill, 115. Prescott, William, at Bunker Hill, 103; fortifies Breed’s Hill, 105; bravery, 107; reinforced, 107; offers command to Warren, 109; repulses Howe, 112, 113; retreat, 116. _President_, fight with _Little Belt_, 155. Prevost, Sir George, at Lake Champlain, 175, 178. Prideaux, Brigadier, expedition to Niagara, 72, 73. Proctor, Redfield, speech on Cuba, 349. Pryor, R. A., and surrender of Sumter, 271. Putnam, Israel, joins army, 99; at Cambridge, 103; at Bunker Hill, 104, 107, 108, 112, 115, 117; at the Highlands, 121; at Peekskill, 140.