_Argus_, American sloop, ii. 360; carries the American Minister to France, 361; cruises in the English Channel, _ib._; too successful for her safety, 362; encounters _Pelican_, 362, 363; her sails become unmanageable, 364; surrenders, 367; contemporary view of the battle, 369; taken by a prize crew to Plymouth, 371. _Argus_, American frigate, captures six prizes, ii. 151. _Argus_, American cruiser, in the attack on Tripoli, i. 374. _Ariadne_, British man-of-war, captures the _Alfred_, i. 132, 133. _Ariel_, American schooner, ii. 292. _Arkansas_, Confederate ram, skirmish in the Yazoo River, iv. 342, 343; machinery gets out of order, 343; attacks Farragut’s squadron, 344. Arkansas Post, naval force sent to help capture, iv. 351. _Armada_, British liner, chases the _Wasp_, iii. 92. Armament and construction of gun-boats, iv. 246. Armament of battle-ships from 1812 to 1859, iv. 24. Armor-plated ships, first use of, iv. 9, 10. Armstrong, Commodore James, surrenders Pensacola Navy Yard to Confederates, iv. 112; suspended for five years, 113. Arnold, Benedict, invades Canada, i. 84; builds a fleet, 89; fight on Lake Champlain, 92–94; character of, as a fighter, 105. Arsenals established in New York State, ii. 264. _Asp_, American ship, ii. 352. _Atalanta_, British brig, surrenders to the _Alliance_, i. 298. _Atalanta_, British ship, captured by the _Wasp_, iii. 100. _Atalanta_, British frigate, ii. 16. _Atlanta_, formerly the _Fingal_, Confederate ironclad, iv. 488; surrenders to the _Weehawken_, 489. _Atlanta_, United States cruiser, iv. 533. _Atlantic_, British letter-of-marque whaler, captured by Porter, iii. 9. See _Essex, Jr._ Audience, an intensely interested, iii. 152. _Augusta_, Federal ship, in Port Royal squadron, iv. 172. _Augusta_, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad _Palmetto State_, iv. 474. Aulick, Captain James, sent to Japan in 1851, iii. 443; recalled on false charges, _ib._ _Avon_, British brig-sloop, captured by the _Wasp_ (3), iii. 93–96. _Aylwin_, American gun-boat, iii. 141. Bache, Lieutenant G. M., iv. 369. Badajos, rapacity of English veterans in the streets of, iii. 134. _Bahama_, British merchant-ship, officers and crew of the _Alabama_ taken in the, to Terceira, iv. 431. Bahama Islands, a resort for contraband traders in the Civil War, iv. 48. Bahia, Brazil, Captain Bainbridge paroles his prisoners at, ii. 167, 175. Bailey, Lieutenant-colonel Joseph, saves Admiral Porter’s squadron, iv. 371–376; receives thanks of Congress, 376. Bailey, Captain Theodorus, at New Orleans, iv. 316; commands first division of Farragut’s squadron, 324; sent ashore to deliver Farragut’s letter, 338.