Washington city in 1800, i. 30; expense of living in, iv. 209; F. J. Jackson’s impressions of, v. 116–119; threatened by British fleet in July, 1813, vii. 55, 277; fears for safety of, 56; declared to be adequately defended, 57; neglect of its defences, viii. 120; military district created to protect, 122; result of measures of defence, 123; British reasons for attacking, 121, 127, 130; measures of defence taken after August 18, 131, 132; Winder retreats to, 135, 136; natural defences of, 138; capture and burning of, 145–148; ix. 21; conduct of citizens of, viii. 158, 159, 160; militia system tested at, 218; report of investigating committee on capture of, 277; Ross’s treatment of, approved by his government, 314, 315; defence of, compared with that of New Orleans, 340–342; news of capture received at Ghent, ix. 31, 42; Lord Liverpool on capture of, 38; news from New Orleans and Ghent received at, 57, 58; banks share in loan of 1815, 102; public buildings rebuilt, 142, 143. Washington, (or Warburton) Fort (see Fort Washington). Washington, President, opinion of American farming-lands, i. 35; his support of a national bank, 65; on emancipation in Pennsylvania and its effects, 135; establishes the precedent of addressing Congress in a speech, 247; his personal authority, 262, 320; denounced by Thomas Paine, 328; expenditures of his administration, v. 200; Jefferson’s estimate of, viii. 232. “Wasp,” sloop-of-war, vi. 364, 378; her action with the “Frolic,” 379, 380; vii. 310, 312. “Wasp,” new American 22-gun sloop-of-war built in 1813, viii. 184, 237; in the British Channel in June, 1814, 185; captures the “Reindeer,” 186, 187; sinks the “Avon,” 188–192; lost, 193; gunnery of, ix. 230. Water communication in 1800, i. 8. Waterhouse, Dr., i. 93. Waterloo, ix. 56. Watmough, John G., lieutenant of artillery, in Fort Erie, viii. 76. Watson, W. H., first lieutenant of the “Argus,” vii. 306, 308. Watt, first lieutenant of the “Shannon,” killed, vii. 296. Wayne, Fort, vi. 294. Wea Indians, vi. 71, 75, 87. Weatherford, William, Creek half-breed, vii. 229, 244, 257.