Dacres, Captain John, of the _Guerriere_, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104 Dayton (O.), Hull takes command at, 12 Dearborn, Major General Henry, plans invasion of Canada, 13, 73; commander-in-chief of American forces, 14; incompetency, 14; and Niagara campaign, 64, 65, 74-75, 76; campaign against Montreal, 71-72; wishes to retire, 72, 75; Armstrong and, 72; Brown reports battle of Sackett's Harbor to, 78-79; retired, 80; age, 117 Dearborn, Fort (Chicago), burned, 19; massacre, 20 Decatur, Captain Stephen, 138; and the _Philadelphia_ (1804), 92; squadron commander, 94; on the _United States_, 114, 115; on the _President_, 148, 149; Defiance, Fort, 24 Delaware Bay, blockade of, 185 Derby, Captain John, 218 Detroit, 64; first campaign from, 11, 14; Hull at, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; mutiny at, 15; surrender of, 17-18, 19, 20, 22, 106-07; in British hands, 31; Procter abandons, 42; Harrison returns to, 45 _Detroit_ (brig), taken from Hull, 38; Elliott captures, 39-40 _Detroit_ (British ship), 54, 56, 57, 60 Downes, Lieutenant John, 155, 156 Downie, Captain George, British officer, 178, 183 Drummond, General Sir George Gordon, 172 _Eagle_ (brig), 180 Eastham (Mass.), war levy, 188 Eastport (Me.), captured, 187 Elliott, Lieutenant J. D., builds fleet on Lake Erie, 38, 48; captures _Caledonia_ and _Detroit_, 39-40; with Perry, 54, 58 _Endymion_ (British frigate), 150 _Enterprise_ (brig), encounter with _Boxer_, 139-40 _Epervier_ (British brig), fight with _Peacock_, 144 Erie, Barclay off, 52; _see also_ Presqu' Isle Erie, Fort, Elliott captures ships near, 39; Brock at, 65; Americans capture, 168; Scott and Brown occupy, 173 Erie, Lake, Hull's schooner captured on, 12; Perry on, 21, 40 _et seq._; Harrison on shores of, 24, 30; Chauncey in command on, 47, 48 _Essex_ (frigate), 141, 147; last cruise, 151 _et seq._; building of, 153; capture by Hillyar, 161-65 _Essex, Junior_ (cruiser), 156, 159 Eustis, William, Secretary of War, 24 Faneuil Hall, banquet for Hull at, 106 Farragut, Admiral D. G., 181; motto, 46; cited, _59_; midshipman on _Essex_, 161-62 _Finch_ (British schooner), 180 Florida, West, Jackson and, 200 France, American feeling toward, 3; as maritime enemy, 151-52, 154 Fredericktown burned, 186 "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," 3, 91, 137 Frenchtown, _see_ Raisin River _Frolic_ (British brig), encounter with _Wasp_, 108-13