NICHOLAS BIDDLE. (From an engraving by Edwin), 45 A FRIGATE CHASING A SMALL BOAT. (From an old French engraving), 48 A LETTER FROM ESEK HOPKINS. (From the original at the Lenox Library), 50 A CORVETTE. (From an old French engraving), 52 COMMODORE ESEK HOPKINS. (From a very rare English engraving), 55 AN ENGLISH “SEVENTY-FOUR” AND A FRIGATE COMING TO ANCHOR. (From an old engraving), 59 JOHN BARRY. (From an engraving of the portrait by Chappel), 65 FACSIMILE OF ACCOUNT BETWEEN DUDLEY SALTONSTALL AND ELISHA HINMAN. (From the original at the Lenox Library), 67 ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE. (From an old engraving), 70 JOHN PAUL JONES. (From an engraving by Longacre of the portrait by C. W. Peale), 75 BURLINGTON BAY ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN. (From an old engraving in the collection of Mr. W. C. Crane), 83 SIR GUY CARLETON. (From an engraving by A. H. Ritchie), 86 GEN. BENEDICT ARNOLD. (Drawn from life at Philadelphia by Du Simitier), 88 THE _ROYAL SAVAGE_. (After an old painting), 90 THE BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN, 92 PLAN OF THE ACTION OF OCTOBER 12, 1776, 93 MAP OF THE FIGHT ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN, 1776, 94 THE FIGHT ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN, OCTOBER 13, 1776. (From a contemporary English engraving), 97 A VIEW ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN, SHOWING THE FIGHT OF 1776. (From Hinton’s “History of the United States”), 101 BROADSIDE DESCRIBING THE ENGAGEMENT ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN. (From a copy at the Lenox Library), 106–109 THE _PHŒNIX_ AND THE _ROSE_ ENGAGING THE FIRESHIPS ON THE HUDSON RIVER. (From a lithograph of the painting by Serres after a sketch by Sir James Wallace), 115 JOHN BAZELEY. (From an engraving by Ridley of a miniature by Langdon), 120 JOHN PAUL JONES’S COMMISSION, 136 MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLES. (Showing Captain Jones’s two voyages and the route of the _Reprisal_), 139 AN ENGLISH CARICATURE OF JOHN PAUL JONES. (Published in London, October 22, 1779), 143 “PAUL JONES THE PIRATE.” (From an old engraving in the collection of Mr. W. C. Crane), 149