changes the order of troops, 140; returns to Washington, 152; at Rockville, 156; returns with the President to Washington, 157; takes charge of the War Department, 158, 160; effect of his course on Armstrong, 159; claims the War Department, 161, 162; appointed Secretary of War in September, 1814, 163; admits failure of recruiting service, 216, 266; declines to receive Massachusetts militia into national service under a State major-general, 221; asks Congress for one hundred thousand regular troops in October, 1814, 264; recommends a draft, 265; borrows national loans on his private credit, 283, 284; warns Jackson Sept. 25, 1814, of British expedition against Louisiana, 326, 329; his measures for the defence of Louisiana, 326–328; forbids attack on Pensacola, 327; orders Gaines to Mobile, and Jackson to New Orleans, 331; his instructions to the Ghent commissioners, ix. 10–12; his instructions of June 27, to omit impressment, 33; recommends a peace establishment of twenty thousand men, 83; returns to State department, 87, 88; nominated for the Presidency, 122–124; elected President, 139. Montalivet, Comte de, Napoleon’s Minister of the Interior, v. 221; his efforts for American commerce, 223, 224. Montgomery Court House (see Rockville). Montreal, Wilkinson decides to attack, vii. 178; Amherst’s expedition against, in 1760, 178; Armstrong and Wilkinson change opinions about, 180–182; Hampton’s advance toward, 192–194; British forces in district of, 194–196; British forces about, in January, 1814, viii. 25. Moore, Sir John, his Spanish campaign, v. 26, 47, 48. Moore, Thomas, i. 48; lines of, on the Philadelphia _literati_, 122; his verses on Jefferson, 167. Moose Island, occupied by British troops in July, 1814, viii. 94; disputed territory, 95; claimed at Ghent by England, ix. 10, 20, 25, 34, 49, 52. Morales, Don Juan Ventura, Spanish Intendant at New Orleans, officially declares the right of deposit at end, i. 419–421; blamed by Yrujo, 427; blamed by Cevallos, ii. 60; defended by Cevallos, iii. 26; remains at New Orleans, 72–79, 300. Moravian town, Proctor’s defeat at, vii. 131–142. Moreau, Jean Victor, Turreau’s note about, iii. 82, 83; death of, vii. 351. Morfontaine, treaty of, i. 362, 370, 388; ii. 21, 42, 46, 47, 293, 296, 297, 383. (See Treaties.) Morgan, David, brigadier-general of Louisiana militia, commands on right bank at New Orleans, viii. 370; driven back, 377. Morgan, George N., warns Jefferson of Burr’s declarations, iii. 255, 279. Morgan, L., major of First Rifles, repulses British attack on Black Rock, viii. 69.