American commerce, English policy toward, i. 306, 307, 384; protected by Portugal, 307; menace to, iv. 412. American cruisers in British waters, i. 112–133. American flag, first salute given to, i. 69; designed, 134; first hoisted, 135; first saluted by a foreign power, 138; protected by Portugal, 307; a shield for an infamous traffic, iii. 361; a Chinese assault on, 380. American frontier in 1812, ii. 262. American Navy, first existence of, i. 1; founders of, 37; first ships of, in commission, 39–43; resolutions of Congress founding it, 41; first officers and first ships of, 39–43; origin of the, 1–47; first cruise of the, 48–62; first squadron poorly manned and inefficient, 49–53; along shore in 1776, 63–83; mismanagement in, 159; at the time of the Declaration of Independence, 300; building a new navy, 303; strength of, at commencement of hostilities with France, 315; almost extinct, 396; reduced to a peace footing, 398; discreditable lack of, ii. 26; increase of, 356; development of, from 1815 to 1859, iv. 1–9; personnel of the, in 1859, 24–26; number of men who took part with the Southern States, 27; value of men from Northern ports and the Great Lakes, 36; a nautical curiosity shop, 37; ferryboats as naval ships, _ib._; first great naval expedition of the War of the Rebellion, 168; modern, sketch of, 523–554; in 1885, condition of, 523. American prisoners in England, i. 122; in Tripoli, 345, 358. American seamen, impressment of, ii. 18; courage and skill of, 357. American sea-power in 1812, ii. 21. American shipping and French cruisers, i. 314. American squadron, career of the first, i. 60. Ammen, Captain Daniel, at Port Royal, iv. 163; Commander of the _Patapsco_, 480. _Amphitrite_, American pilot-boat, attacks a French privateer, ii. 34. _Amy_, American bark, Blackford, at Rio Janeiro, iv. 548. _Anacostia_, Federal screw steamer, at Acquia Creek, iv. 81. Anarchy in the West Indies and along the Spanish Main, iii. 325. _Andrea Doria_, brig of first American Navy, i. 39; in the first naval battle of the Revolution, 58; ordered to sea, 64; fight with brig _Racehorse_, 68, 69; burned, 70. Andrews, Major W. S. G., Commander of Fort Hatteras, iv. 107. Anglo-Saxon aggressiveness, iii. 391. Anglo-Saxon cheer, the, ii. 308. Angostura, Venezuela, Commodore Perry arrives at, iii. 329. Anthracite coal used by blockade-runners, iv. 55. Antonio, Cape, Captain Kearny of the _Enterprise_ captures pirates near, iii. 331. _Aquidaban_, Brazilian rebel monitor, iv. 548. Arbuthnot, Captain James, captured by the _Wasp_, iii. 93–96. _Arcade_, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser _Sumter_, iv. 415. _Archer_, captured by Captain Read of the _Tacony_, iv. 424.