French troops enter Mexico, iv. 367. _Friendship_, American ship, attacked and looted by natives of Sumatra, iii. 368. _Frolic_, American sloop, built at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1814, iii. 64; Master-commandant Joseph Bainbridge appointed to, 65: sinks a Carthagenian privateer, _ib._; encounters the British frigate _Orpheus_ and schooner _Shelburne_, _ib._; surrenders, 66. _Frolic_, British brig, encountered by the _Wasp_, ii. 106; captured by the _Wasp_, 107–112; comparison between the ships, 116; recaptured by the _Poictiers_, 118. Frontier posts retained by England contrary to treaty, i. 383; posts used as Indian headquarters, _ib._ Fry, Captain Joseph, capture of, iv. 308; captured and executed by the Spaniards in the _Virginius_ expedition, _ib._ Fulton ferryboat _Somerset_ captures the blockade-runner _Circassian_ off Havana, iv. 37. Fulton, naval plans of, iv. 3, 4; his first steam war-ship, the _Demologos_, 4; report of commissioners appointed to examine her, 7, 8; blown to pieces, 9. _Fulton 2d_, launched in 1887, iv. 11. Gadsden, Christopher, member of first Marine Committee, i. 36. _Gaines_, Confederate gun-boat, iv. 380. _Galatea_, British frigate, chased by the _Congress_ and _President_, ii. 151. _Galena_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 389. _Gallinipper_, American barge, captures a pirate schooner, iii. 335. Galveston, Texas, blockaded by the _South Carolina_, iv. 44; bombarded by Captain James Alden of the Federal frigate _South Carolina_, 121; the foreign consuls protest against the bombardment, 123; captured by Farragut, 357; is retaken by the Confederates, _ib._ Gamble, Lieutenant Peter, killed in the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. 157. _Gaspé_, captured by men armed with paving-stones, i. 9. _Gazelle_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 370. Geisinger, Midshipman David, placed in charge of the captured ship _Atlanta_, iii. 100. _General Armstrong_, American privateer schooner, iii. 186; owned by New York men, _ib._; under Captain Tim Barnard captures nineteen prizes, 187; sails from New York under command of Captain Samuel C. Reid, _ib._; arrives at Fayal and encounters the _Carnation_, _Plantagenet_, and _Rota_, _ib._; is attacked by boats from the three ships, but beats them off, 189; scuttled and abandoned by her crew, 200. _General Bragg_, Confederate gun-boat, rams the _Cincinnati_ at Fort Pillow, iv. 293; raked by the _Carondelet_, 294; surrenders, 302. _General Monk_, British ship, attacked and captured by the _Hyder Ali_, i. 209–215. _General Pike_, American ship, burned at the attack on Fort George, ii. 346. _General Price_, Federal ram, in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, iv. 364.