_Caledonia_ (British brig), 38-39; Elliott captures, 39; in American squadron, 49-50, 56 Canada, "On to Canada!" slogan of frontiersmen, 4; vulnerable point in War of 1812, 9, 10; population and extent, 10; plans for invasion of, 13-14; Hull abandons invasion of, 16; Niagara campaign, 64 _et seq._, 167-77 Canning, George, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 92 Carden, Captain J. S., of the _Macedonian_, 114, 115, 116 Cass, Colonel Lewis, 18 Castine, British land at, 187 Champlain, Lake, Dearborn on, 71; Hampton in command, 80, 81; Macdonough's victory, 166 _et seq._ Chandler, General John, 74, 75 Chateauguay River, Hampton on, 84, 85 Chauncey, Captain Isaac, leads sailors from New York to Buffalo, 39; in command of naval forces on Lakes Erie and Ontario, 47, 48; extreme caution, 49, 55, 56, 170-71; on Lake Ontario, 49, 50, 63; and Perry, 50-51, 55, 56; and Niagara campaign, 72, 73, 74, 77, 82, 170-71 _Cherub_ (British sloop-of-war), 157, 159, 160, 161 _Chesapeake_ (frigate), and _Leopard_, 91; Lawrence on, 96, 127-28; defeated by _Shannon_, 128-39; Allen on, 142 Chesapeake Bay, blockade of 185; Cockburn in, 186; British army comes to, 189; British fleet in, 197 Chippawa, Brock's forces at 65, 67; battle, 168-70 Chrystler's Farm, battle, 83 _Chub_ (British schooner), 180 Clay, Brigadier General Green, 31 Clay, Henry, on conquest of Canada, 9 Cleveland, Harrison's headquarters at, 33 Cochrane, Vice Admiral Alexander, 198, 218 Cockburn, Rear Admiral George, 186, 195, 196 Cod, Cape, British raids on, 188 Coffee, General John, 211, 215 _Confiance_ (British frigate), 179, 180 Congress, declares war on Great Britain (1812), 4; and the navy, 90; votes prize money for _Constitution_, 107; prize money for _Wasp_, 113; and maritime trouble with France, 152; refuses to sanction Jackson's expedition, 201 _Congress_ (frigate), 94, 141 Connecticut, attitude toward War of 1812, 7 _Constellation_ (frigate), 92, 141, 187 _Constitution_ (frigate), 2, 125; Hull and, 95, 116, 128; now in Boston Navy Yard, 95-96; encounter with British squadron, 96-99; and _Guerriere_, 100-07, 108, 122-23; "Old Ironsides," 101; under Bainbridge, 116-17; health conditions on, 117-18; encounter with _Java_, 118-21, 123-24, 154; Lawrence and, 126; influence, 139; in 1813, 141; gains open sea in 1814, 147 Creek Indians, 201 Creighton, Captain J. O., 137 Crockett, David, 202 Croghan, Major George, at Fort Stephenson, 34-35, 36, 38, 46 Crowninshield, Captain George, 136 _Cyane_ (British frigate), 147