_Edwin_, American merchant-brig, captured by the Dey of Algiers, iii. 341, 351. _Effingham_, American frigate, sunk, i. 188. _Eliza_, merchant-schooner, David Porter’s first ship, ii. 33. _Elizabeth_, British schooner, captured by Porter, iii. 4. Ellet, Colonel Charles, Jr., converts seven river steamers into rams on the Ohio River, iv. 298; his part in the attack on Fort Pillow, 301. Ellet, Colonel Charles R., sent by Porter to control the Mississippi between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, iv. 351. Elliott, Lieutenant Jesse D., sent to Buffalo to purchase vessels, ii. 273; capture of the _Detroit_, 276, 278, 279; in command of the _Niagara_, 292; brings up the gun-boats, 322; criticized for inactivity, 335, 336; acts as second to Commodore Barron in his duel with Decatur, iii. 319; commands the _Ontario_ in an expedition against the Dey of Algiers in 1815, 343. Elliptical route plan condemned by Admiral Porter, iv. 101. _Emily St. Pierre_, British merchant-ship, seized by United States cruiser _James Adger_, iv. 58; recaptured by her captain, _ib._ _Enchantress_, merchant-schooner, captured by Confederate privateer _Jefferson Davis_, iv. 91. _Endymion_, British frigate, attacks the _Prince de Neufchâtel_, American privateer, iii. 202; is defeated, 203; assists in the capture of the _President_, 222. England, greed of, in dealings with her colonies, i. 4; tries to crush the new republic, 314. English Navy of 1812 in American waters, ii. 25. English officers offended by names given to Yankee ships, iii. 313. English seaman in 1812, ii. 25. Ensign, naval, first American, i. 46. _Enterprise_, American brig, sent to South America to put down piracy, iii. 331. _Enterprise_, American schooner, captures the French privateer _Seine_, i. 330; sent to Tripoli in charge of Lieutenant Andrew Sterrett, 335; battle with the war polacre _Tripoli_, 335; the luckiest, naval ship of the War of 1812, ii. 372; captures eight privateers, 373; cruises in the Mediterranean, _ib._; captures the _Tripoli_ and the ketch _Mastico_, _ib._; changed to a brig and overloaded with guns, 374; drives off English privateers under command of Master-commandant Johnston Blakely, 375; Lieutenant William Burrows takes charge of her, _ib._; cruises for privateers, _ib._; encounters the _Boxer_, _ib._; her commander wounded, and Lieutenant McCall takes his place, 377, 378; the _Boxer_ surrenders, 379; after the battle Master-commandant James Renshaw appointed to command, 386; cruises off the southern coast, _ib._; escapes from a British frigate, _ib._; employed as harbor guard, 387. _Enterprise_, American sloop, i. 89.