Fort Ripley, Charleston, S. C., iv. 467. Fort Sumter, five monitors open fire on, iv. 491; bombarded and reduced to a wreck, 493. Fort Wagner, Charleston, S. C., iv. 467, 469, 490. Fort Walker, on Hilton Head, Confederate fort at Port Royal, iv. 169. Fortress Monroe, the _Monitor_ retires to, after the fight with the _Merrimac_, iv. 226. _Forward_, American schooner, in attack on Alvarado, iii. 410. _Forward_, filibuster craft, cut out by Lieutenant Brownson of the United States frigate _Mohican_, iv. 553. Foster, Lieutenant-commander J. P., iv. 369. Foster, General John G., Captain Flusser appeals to him to go and burn the Confederate ironclad _Albemarle_, iv. 454. Fox, Augustus V., appointed assistant to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, iv. 35. _Fox_, Captain W. H. Cocke, iii. 333. Foxardo affair, the unfortunate, iii. 337, 338. France, United States Government abrogates all treaties with, July 7, 1798, i. 314. _Francis B. Ogden_, Ericsson’s model boat, attains speed of ten miles an hour, iv. 10; Captain Stockton makes a trip on, _ib._ Franklin sails for France on the _Reprisal_, i. 114. Franklin, Sir John, American expedition sent to search for the remains of, iii. 464. _Franklin_, American schooner, captures ten vessels and Governor Wright of St. John’s, i. 203; captures a quantity of war supplies, _ib._ _Freeborn_, Federal steamer, at Acquia Creek, iv. 81. “Free trade” before “sailors’ rights,” the motto of Washington politicians in 1812, ii. 18. _Freely_, Confederate privateer, iv. 93. Frémont, John C. (“the Pathfinder”), takes possession of San Diego, iii. 394; commands in the Mississippi Valley, iv. 241. French cruisers destroy American shipping, i. 314. French troops enter Mexico, iv. 367. _Friendship_, American ship, attacked and looted by natives of Sumatra, iii. 368. _Frolic_, American sloop, built at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1814, iii. 64; Master-commandant Joseph Bainbridge appointed to, 65: sinks a Carthagenian privateer, _ib._; encounters the British frigate _Orpheus_ and schooner _Shelburne_, _ib._; surrenders, 66. _Frolic_, British brig, encountered by the _Wasp_, ii. 106; captured by the _Wasp_, 107–112; comparison between the ships, 116; recaptured by the _Poictiers_, 118. Frontier posts retained by England contrary to treaty, i. 383; posts used as Indian headquarters, _ib._ Fry, Captain Joseph, capture of, iv. 308; captured and executed by the Spaniards in the _Virginius_ expedition, _ib._ Fulton ferryboat _Somerset_ captures the blockade-runner _Circassian_ off Havana, iv. 37. Fulton, naval plans of, iv. 3, 4; his first steam war-ship, the _Demologos_, 4; report of commissioners appointed to examine her, 7, 8; blown to pieces, 9.