_Alabama_, Confederate privateer, off Galveston, iv. 357; known as _No. 290_, 430; Captain Semmes appointed to command, 431; cruises off the Azores, Martinique, Galveston, Cape Town, and the East Indies, 432–436; encounters the _Kearsarge_ at Cherbourg, 436; comparison of their armaments, 437; the fight, 438–441; prizes taken by, 447. _Alabama_ claims, iv. 430. _Albatross_, Federal gun-boat, passes the batteries of Port Hudson, iv. 358. _Albemarle_, Confederate ironclad ram, iv. 456; laid up at Plymouth, N.C., 457; blown up by Lieutenant Cushing, 461. Albemarle Sound, N.C., a Confederate privateer resort, iv. 94. _Albert Adams_, Federal merchant-ship, captured by the _Sumter_, iv. 415. Alden, Captain James, iv. 386. Alden, Commander James, iv. 314. _Alert_, British corvette, surrenders to the _Essex_, ii. 42; attempt to rescue from Porter, 43, 44. _Alert_, British cutter, captures the _Lexington_, i. 119, 120. Alexander, Captain Charles, i. 66. _Alexandria_, British frigate, ii. 359. Alexandria, Red River, Admiral Porter’s squadrons arrive at, iv. 370. _Alfred_, American flagship, sent to France, i. 130; captured, 132, 133. Algerian fleet sent after Yankee merchantmen, iii. 341. Algerian Navy, strength of the, iii. 344. Algerian pirates encouraged by England, i. 308, 309. Algiers, Africa, tribute paid to by the United States, iii. 339; by England, 340. Algiers, Dey of, ransom paid to, i. 309, 310; treatment of Americans by, iii. 340, 341. Algiers, harbor defences of, iii. 345. _Allen_, American gun-boat, iii. 141. Allen, Captain William Henry, ii. 360; carries the American Minister to France, 361; sails into the English Channel, _ib._; captures a wine ship from Portugal, 362, 363; encounters the _Pelican_, 362–364; his ship surrendered, 367; dies in Mill Prison Hospital, 371. Allen, Lieutenant William Howard, takes charge of the ship, ii. 364; continues the fight, 367; killed in an engagement with pirates, iii. 333. _Alliance_, American frigate, detailed to carry Lafayette home, i. 232; fouls the _Bonhomme Richard_, 234; takes a valuable prize, 236; fires into the _Bonhomme Richard_, 254; flight of Paul Jones on the, 275; cruises on the French coast, 297; narrow escape of, 298; sails from Havana with specie, _ib._; attacked by the _Sybille_, 299; sold, 303. _Alligator_, American tender, surrendered to the British, iii. 235. _Alligator_, American schooner, defeats an attack at Cole’s Island, ii. 419. Alvarado, Mexican port, Commodore Conner attempts to take, iii. 410; captured by Lieutenant Charles G. Hunter, 428. Alwyn, John C., Lieutenant in the _Java_ fight, mortally wounded, ii. 166, 171, 172. American citizens in foreign countries, iii. 385, 386.