_Constitution_, United States frigate, built, i. 312; flagship in the attack on Tripoli, 367; called a “pine box” by Englishmen, 380; Captain Isaac Hull disputes with the Captain of the British warship _Havana_, ii. 13, 14; is chased by two frigates, _ib._; ship prepares for action, _ib._; frigates retreat, 16; her escape from a British squadron, 53–69; “a bunch of pine boards,” 73; fight with _Guerrière_, 76–95; comparative strength of the two ships, 96; return to Boston, 101; cruising off Brazil, 152; falls in with the _Java_, 153, 155–173; attempt of the _Java_ to board, 158; the London _Times_ on the victory, 176; Lawrence applies for the command of, 197; laid up at Boston, iii. 241; goes to sea again, 242; captures the war-schooner _Picton_, _ib._; falls in with the British frigate _La Pique_, _ib._; the British ship runs away, 243; is chased by the _Junon_ and _Tenedos_, 244; returns to Boston, 245; captures the _Lord Nelson_, _ib._; chases the _Elizabeth_ and captures the _Susan_, _ib._; is chased by the _Elizabeth_ and _Tiber_, 246; fight with the _Cyane_ and _Levant_, 247–256; sails to Porto Praya, 260; attacked by three British frigates, 261; her fighting days over, 268; plan of, iv. 537. Continental Congress, effect on the, of the British vengeance on Portland, i. 26. Continental Naval Board, i. 158. Contraband trade in the Civil War, iv. 48–52. Cooke, Captain. See _Albemarle_. _Coquette_, American merchant schooner, plundered by the Porto Rico privateer _Palmira_, iii. 332. Cornwallis, Lieutenant-general Lord, released from imprisonment in exchange for Henry Laurens, iv. 154. Corpus Christi, Texas, captured by Farragut, iv. 357. _Cossack_, Federal transport, iv. 478. Cottineau, Captain Denis Nicholas, i. 232. Cotton-mills of the world shut down during the War of the Rebellion, iv. 47. _Countess of Scarborough_ attacks Paul Jones’s fleet off Flamborough Head, i. 243; surrender to the _Pallas_, 267. _Couronne_, French ironclad, witnesses the _Alabama-Kearsarge_ fight, iv. 438. Couthouy, Lieutenant S. P., iv. 369. Cox, William, midshipman on the _Chesapeake_, ii. 206. Coxetter, Captain Louis M., iv. 91–93. Craighead’s Point, shells thrown into Fort Pillow from, iv. 290. Craney Island, Captain Tattnall fires and blows up the _Merrimac_ on, iv. 236–237. Craven, Captain Thomas Tunis, iv. 314; sinks with his ship, 394. Craven, Commander T. A. M., iv. 386. Crawford, William H., American minister to France, ii. 361. _Cricket_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 370. Crosby, Lieutenant Pierce, iv. 315. Crown Point, retreat of Benedict Arnold to, i. 103; account of the roads and distances to, from New York, 109.