Chauncey, Commodore Isaac, appointed to command the forces on the Great Lakes, ii. 270; attacks Kingston, _ib._; attacks Toronto, 341; attacks Fort George, 342; returns to Sackett’s Harbor, 348; makes another assault on Toronto, 349; Sir James Yeo’s squadron appears, _ib._; jockeying for position, 350; Chauncey opens fire, 351; returns to the attack, 352; misses the great opportunity of his life, 353; operations of, on Lake Ontario, iii. 113–129. _Cherub_, British war-ship, accompanies the _Phœbe_ in the attack on the _Essex_, iii. 25. _Chesapeake_, American frigate, built, i. 312. _Chesapeake_, Lawrence appointed to command of, ii. 197; her crew, 198; the ship reputed to be unlucky, 199; is fitted out for a voyage to intercept British ships, 200; is blockaded by the _Shannon_ in Boston Harbor, 203; goes out to meet the _Shannon_, 1813, 204; crew mutinous, 205; closes down on the _Shannon_, 206; the battle, 209; the _Chesapeake_ is boarded, 214; hand-to-hand fight, 217; the ship is captured, 221; taken to Halifax, 222; comparison of the two ships, 229. _Chickasaw_, Federal monitor, iv. 386. _Chickasaw_, Federal gun-boat, shells Fort Gaines, and compels it to surrender, iv. 405. _Chicora_, Confederate ironclad, built at Charleston, iv. 473; fires on the _Keystone State_ and captures her, 475. _Chillicothe_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 369. Chinese assault on the American flag, a, iii. 380. Chinese war of 1856, American interests involved in, and fleet sent to protect them, iii. 379–382. _Chippeway_, British schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 297. _Chubb_, British ship, disabled and surrenders to Macdonough, iii. 156. _Chubb_, British gun-boat, iii. 143. _Cincinnati_, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. 245; flagship of Commodore Foote before Fort Henry, 261; Captain R. N. Stembel commands, 289; throws the first shell into Fort Pillow, 293; attacked by Confederate rains, _ib._; the _Mound City_ goes to the rescue of, 294; sinks, _ib._ _Circassian_, blockade-runner, captured off Havana by the Fulton ferryboat _Somerset_, iv. 37. Civilization promoted by Anglo-Saxon aggressiveness, iii. 391. _Clarence_, merchant-ship, captured by Captain Maffitt, of the cruiser _Florida_, iv. 424; placed under command of Lieutenant Read, _ib._; burnt, _ib._ Coaling stations, need of, by Federal war-ships in Southern waters, iv. 161. Cocke, Captain W. H., iii. 333; fired on and killed by a Porto Rican fort, _ib._ Collier, Sir Ralph, K. C. B., iii. 260. Collins, Captain Napoleon, at Port Royal, iv. 163; commanding the _Wachusett_, captures the _Florida_ in Bahia Harbor, iv. 424. “Colonial Navy,” distinguished from temporary cruisers, i. 28, 29.