_Lady Prevost_ (British schooner), 56 Lafitte, Jean, 206 Lafitte, Pierre, 206, 211, 215 Lambert, Captain Henry, of the _Java_, 118 Lang, Jack, sailor on the _Wasp_, 111 _La Vengeance_ (French ship) and _Constellation_, 93 Lawrence, Captain James, of the _Chesapeake_, 96, 127-28, 129-30; on the _Hornet_, 126, 127; fights _Shannon_, 130-136; death, 131, 133, 135; account of funeral, 136-37 _Lawrence_ (brig), 49, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58 _Leopard_ and _Chesapeake_, 91, 142 _Levant_ (British sloop-of-war), fight with _Constitution_, 147 Lewis, General Morgan, 75-76, 83 _Linnet_ (British brig), 180 _L'Insurgente_ (French ship) and _Constellation_, 92 Long Island Sound, British fleet in, 188 Ludlow, Lieutenant A. C, of the _Chesapeake_, 133,136, 137 Lundy's Lane, battle, 2, 171-173 McArthur, Colonel, 18 Macdonough, Commodore Thomas, on Lake Champlain, 166, 167, 171, 178, 179-84 _Macedonian_ (British frigate), Decatur captures, 114-16, 142; as American frigate, 141 McHenry, Fort, 197, 198 Mackinac, fall of, 19, 20 Mackinaw, _see_ Mackinac M'Knight, Lieutenant, S. D., of the _Essex_, 163 Macomb, Brigadier General Alexander, 177 Madison, James, and Hull, 12, 19; reviews troops, 191; at battle of Bladensburg, 192; policy as to West Florida, 200 Mahan, Captain A. T., quoted, 128 Maine, British raids, 187 Malden (Amherstburg), 43; _see also_ Amherstburg Massachusetts, attitude toward War of 1812, 7, 91 Maumee Rapids, Harrison at, 30 Maumee River, Hull at, 12 Meigs, Fort, massacre at, 20, 32; built, 30; Procter besieges, 31-32, 36; Harrison again at, 33 Merchant marine, 93 Miller, Captain, at battle of Bladensburg, 195 Miller, Colonel John, 17, 33 Mims, Samuel, 202 Mims, Fort, massacre, 202 Mississippi Valley and invasion of Florida, 200 Mobile, Jackson at, 204, 206-207, 208 Montreal, plan of attack, 14; campaign against, 71, 82-87 Moraviantown, Procter goes to, 42 Morris, Lieutenant Charles, on the _Constitution_, 101, 107 Mulcaster, Captain W. H., 83 Murray, Colonel, British officer, 87 Napoleon, Great Britain and, 2; offenses against American commerce, 8 Navy, 8-9,38; on Lake Erie, 46 _et seq._; on the sea, 89 _et seq._; augmented by private subscriptions, 152; victory on Lake Champlain, 166 _et seq._ Nelson, Horatio, Viscount, quoted, 141 New England, attitude toward War of 1812, 7-8; British raids in, 187-88 New Orleans, battle of, 166, 175, 208-18, 219 New York, apprehension in, 148 Niagara, campaign planned, 13-14; American forces at, 14-15; campaign, 64 _et seq._; renewal of struggle for region of (1814), 167-77 _Niagara_ (brig), 49, 53, 54, 56, 58, 59 Niagara, Fort, 87 Nicholls, Major Edward, 205 Norfolk, Warren attacks, 187 Northwest Territory regained for United States, 44, 63