Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: THE SURRENDER OF THE “GUERRIÈRE”] NAVAL ACTIONS OF THE WAR OF 1812 BY JAMES BARNES AUTHOR OF “FOR KING OR COUNTRY” WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CARLTON T. CHAPMAN [Illustration] NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. FOR KING OR COUNTRY. A Story of the American Revolution. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 50. A story that will be eagerly welcomed by boys of all ages.... It is doubtful whether the reader will be content to lay the story aside until he has finished it. It is a good book for an idle day in the country, and we cordially recommend it both to boys on a holiday and to boys that stay at home.--_Saturday Evening Gazette_, Boston. A spirited story of the days that tried men’s souls, full of incident and movement that keep up the reader’s interest to the turning of the last page. It is full of dramatic situations and graphic descriptions which irresistibly lead the reader on, regretful at the close that there is not still more of it.--_Christian Work_, N. Y. A fascinating study. It is replete with those Homeric touches which delight the heart of the healthy boy.... It would be difficult to find a more fascinating book for the young.--_Philadelphia Bulletin._ A capital story for boys, both young and old; full of adventure and movement, thoroughly patriotic in tone, throwing luminous sidelights upon the main events of the Revolution.--_Brooklyn Standard-Union._ PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. Copyright, 1896, by HARPER & BROTHERS. TO MY FATHER WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE ARE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED WITH AFFECTIONATE GRATITUDE I HAVE THE HONOR TO DEDICATE THIS BOOK PREFACE The country that has no national heroes whose deeds should be found emblazoned on her annals, that can boast no men whose lives and conduct can be held up as examples of what loyalty, valor, and courage should be, that country has no patriotism, no heart, no soul. If it be wrong to tell of a glorious past, for fear of keeping alive an animosity that should have perished with time, there have been many offenders; and the author of the following pages thus writes himself down as one of them. Truly, if pride in the past be a safeguard for the future in forming a national spirit, America should rejoice.