Buchanan, Flag Officer Franklin, iv. 188; his difficulty in finding a crew, 195; wounded, 210; his report of the fight, _ib._; Confederate fleet of, at Mobile, 380; sends the _Tennessee_ into action, 399; wounded, 402. Budd, Lieutenant George, ii. 206, 218. Bullock, Commander James D., supervises construction of the _Alabama_, iv. 430. Bunker Hill, battle of, i. 26. _Bunker Hill_, American privateer, ii. 394. Burleton, Admiral Sir George, chases the _Hornet_, iii. 282. Burnside, General A. E., sent to capture Roanoke Island, iv. 109. _Burrows_, American gun-boat, iii. 141. Burrows, Lieutenant William, appointed to command the _Enterprise_, ii. 375; encounters the _Boxer_, 375–377; is mortally wounded, 377; receives the surrender of the _Boxer_, 379. Bushnell, David, invents first American submarine torpedo boat, i. 164; sketch of his life, 180–184. Butler, General Benjamin F., sent to attack the forts on Hatteras Islands, iv. 100; his report at, 107; occupies New Orleans, 338, 339; his plan for blowing up Fort Fisher, 508–510. _Byron_, Captain of, chased by the _President_, ii. 29–32. _Cabot_, brig of first American Navy, i. 39; commanded by Captain Elisha Hinman, i. 66; fired by her captain, 163. _Cairo_, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. 245; Captain N. C. Bryant commands, 290; runs by torpedoes in the Yazoo River expedition, iv. 350. Calbreth, Peter, one of the capturers of the _Margaretta_, i. 17. Caldwell, Lieutenant C. H. B., iv. 314; breaks barriers across the Mississippi, 323. _Caleb Cushing_, Federal revenue cutter, cut out and burnt by the _Archer_, iv. 424. _Caledonia_, British brig, captured by Lieutenant Elliott, ii. 279. California, a bone of contention between Americans and English, in 1842, iii. 387, 388; operations that insured the acquisition of, iii. 387, 388. Canada invaded by American troops, i. 84; annexation of, agitated in 1812, ii. 20; invasions of, for resenting British aggressions, ii. 263. Canning, British prime minister, diplomacy of, in regard to the _Chesapeake_ affair, ii. 1. Canton, China, American fleet sent to, to protect American interests, iii. 380. Cape Cruz, South America, a pirate resort captured by the _Greyhound_ and _Beagle_, iii. 334. Carden, Captain John Surnam, i. 389; cruel treatment of sailors, _ib._; cruises in the Azores, ii. 121; falls in with the _United States_, 122; fight with, 125–134; Decatur refuses to receive his sword, 139. Caribbean Sea a nest for pirates, iii. 326. Carleton, Sir Guy, his supplies captured by Paul Jones, i. 79; confidence of, 85; his fleet at St. John’s, 87; fight on Lake Champlain, 92–94. _Carleton_, British schooner, ii. 100.