France, cause of her influence over the Union, i. 337; her course in 1795, 350; her colonial aspirations, 353; obtains cession of Spanish St. Domingo in 1795, 354; seeks to recover Louisiana in 1797, 354; asks for Louisiana and the Floridas in 1798, 357; makes peace with foreign powers in 1800, 360–362, 373, 374; asks again for Louisiana, 364; and for the Floridas, 368; obtains Louisiana, 369, 370 (see Treaties); her old colonial system, 377–380; loses St. Domingo, 380–387; her attempt to recover St. Domingo, 390–398, 414, 415; her pledge not to alienate Louisiana, 400; presses to obtain the Floridas, 401, 402; Jefferson’s first cordiality toward, 404; Jefferson’s threats toward, 406–411; Jefferson’s forbearance toward, 423–425, 427–446; her intentions regarding Louisiana, ii, 4–12 (see Napoleon, Louisiana, Florida); perfect understanding with, iii. 8; Jefferson’s alarm at the conduct of, 58–75; her dictatorial tone in 1805, 82–90 (see Decrees); alienation between United States and, v. 28–41, 141–151; difficulties of commerce with, 152, 245; value of spoliations in 1809, 1810, 242, 243; contract with, 339, 340; unfriendly language of the annual message toward, vi. 125; Madison’s language regarding, 187, 218, 224; theory of contract with, apparently abandoned, 223; Monroe’s language regarding, 232; Napoleon driven back into, vii. 370; invaded, 373, 393, 395. (See Livingston, Armstrong, Barlow, Madison, Monroe, Talleyrand, Champagny, Maret.) Franklin, Benjamin, i. 60 _et seq._, 181; citation from Poor Richard, 44. Franklin, Jesse, senator from North Carolina, vii. 49. Freeman, Constant, lieutenant-colonel of Artillery, in command at New Orleans, warned by Wilkinson, iii. 314, 315. Fremantle, Colonel, letter on the situation of Parliament, v. 58. French Mills, Wilkinson’s winter quarters, vii. 199; viii. 24. French spoliations (see Spoliations, French). Frenchtown, in Maryland, Cockburn’s attack on, vii. 266. Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, vii. 88. (See Raisin.) Freneau, Philip, i. 125. Frere, John Hookham, i. 402. Friedland, the battle of, iv. 62, 105. Frigates, American, effect of their captures on England, vii. 5–7, 9, 13–16, 24; cost of, 310; efficiency of, compared with sloops-of-war, 310–312; six new, ordered to be built, 313; their record in 1814, viii. 174–181. (See Navy, “President,” “Constitution,” “United States,” “Chesapeake,” “Congress,” “Constellation,” “Essex,” and “Adams.”) “Frolic,” American sloop-of-war, built in 1813, vii. 313; sails in February, 1814, and is captured April 20, viii. 181.