_Majestic_, British razee, assists in the capture of the _President_ off Long Island, iii. 216. Malayans, teaching, to fear the American flag, iii. 373–379. Malden, Captain Barclay, his rendezvous before the battle of Lake Erie, ii. 294. Maley, Lieutenant William, i. 330. _Manassas_, Confederate ram, formerly the _Enoch Train_, iv. 127; remodelled and put in charge of Lieutenant Alexander F. Warley, 128; strikes the _Richmond_ and causes a panic, 129–131; 321; attacks the _Brooklyn_, 332; sinks, 333. _Manhattan_, Federal monitor, iv. 386. Manly, Captain John, i. 30, 197; surrenders the _Hancock_, 185. Manners, Captain William, fights the _Wasp_, iii. 85; severely wounded, 87; killed, 88. Maples, Captain John F., goes in search of the sloop _Argus_, ii. 362; finds her by the light of the flames on a wine ship, 363; captures the sloop, 363–367; sends it by a prize crew to Plymouth, 371. Marchand, Captain John B., iv. 389. _Margaret and Jessie_, successful blockade-runner, iv. 63. _Margaretta_, attack on the, by the Machias haymakers, i. 21. _Maria_, British transport, captured by Captain Hopkins, i. 281. _Maria_, Boston schooner, captured by Algerian pirates, i. 309. Marine Committee of Congress, i. 158. Marine Committee of United Colonies appointed, i. 36. _Marquis de la Fayette_, French privateer, i. 297. _Mars_, American privateer, fitted out by Captain Thomas Truxton, cruises in English Channel, and captures numerous prizes, i. 205. _Mars_, English privateer, captured by the _Alliance_, i. 297. Marston, Captain John, iv. 200. _Martha_, American slave-ship, captured by Lieutenant Foote, iii. 364. _Martin_, British sloop, grounds on Crow’s Shoal, ii. 401. _Mary_, British schooner, captured by Chauncey at Lake George, ii. 353. _Mary_, British brig, cut out and fired by the _Wasp_, iii. 92. _Mary E. Thompson_, merchantman, captured by Confederate privateer _Jefferson Davis_, iv. 92. _Mary Goodell_, merchantman, captured by Confederate privateer _Jefferson Davis_, iv. 92. _Mashonda_, frigate of Rais Hammida, Algerian Admiral, iii. 345–347; captured by Captain Downes of the _Epervier_, 347. Mason, James Murray, Confederate Commissioner to England, in company with John Slidell, sails in the blockade-runner _Theodora_, iv. 141; arrives at Cardenas, Cuba, and proceeds to Havana, _ib._; sails in the _Trent_ for St. Thomas, 143; is taken off the _Trent_ and carried into Boston, 147–149; he and Slidell are released, 156. _Mastico_, Tripolitan ketch, captured by Decatur, i. 346; he sails in it to fire the _Philadelphia_, 348–356; its name changed to the _Intrepid_, 358. See _Intrepid_. Mathews, Jack, an old man-of-war tar, on the ironclad _Essex_, gallant conduct of, iv. 261; death of, 265.