Kedging, method of, described, ii. 58. _Kennebec_, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 314; Lieutenant-commander William P. McCann, 389. Kennon, Captain Beverley, at New Orleans, iv. 321; attacks the _Varuna_, 334; surrenders, 335. Kentucky, western, railroad communication with the East cut off from, iv. 267. _Keokuk_, Federal monitor, at Charleston, iv. 483, 485. Kerr, Captain Robert, attacks the _Constitution_ at Porto Prayo, iii. 260. _Keystone State_, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad _Palmetto State_, iv. 474. Kidnapped sailors ill-fed and poorly paid on British ships, i. 387. Kilty, Captain A. H., before Fort Pillow, iv. 289; aids the _Cincinnati_, 294. _Kines_, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 315, 358. Kingston, Canada, chief naval and military post in 1812, ii. 265; Commodore Chauncey attacks, 270. Kirkcaldy, Scotland, anecdote of the parson of, on the approach of Paul Jones’s squadron, i. 238. Koszta, Martin, an American citizen, taken by the Austrian authorities on board the war-ship _Hussar_, iii. 385. _Lackawanna_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 389. _Lady Gore_, British schooner, captured by Chauncey at Lake George, ii. 353. _Lady Prevost_, British war-vessel, fired and destroyed by the Americans, ii. 279. Lafayette, carried back to France in the _Alliance_, i. 232; narrowly escapes capture, _ib._ _Lafayette_, Federal gun-boat, in Porter’s fleet surrounding Vicksburg, iv. 363; Lieutenant-commander J. P. Foster, 369. Lake Erie, the battle of, ii. 309–325. Lamb, Colonel William, commander of Fort Fisher, iv. 507. Lambert, Captain Henry, surrenders to Captain Bainbridge of the _Constitution_, ii. 155–173; his attempt to board the _Constitution_, 158; mortally wounded, 165; Captain Bainbridge returns his sword, 172. Lambert, Jonathan, proprietor of the island of Tristan d’Acunha, a breeding resort for seals in the South Atlantic, iii. 270. _Lancaster_, United States screw sloop, built, iv. 16. _Lancaster_, Federal ram, sunk below Port Hudson, iv. 358. Landais, Captain Pierre, placed in command of the _Alliance_ by Congress, i. 232; mutinous conduct of, 234; fouls the _Alliance_ with the _Bonhomme Richard_, _ib._; insolence of, 235; captures a valuable prize, 236; refuses to attend a council of officers, 237; jealousy of, 241; further insubordination of, 244; fires into the _Bonhomme Richard_, 254; treachery of, 267; dismissed and settles in New York City, _ib._ Langdon, John, member of first Marine Committee, i. 36. Langthorne, Lieutenant A. R., iv. 370. _La Pique_, British frigate, encounters the _Constitution_ off Porto Rico, iii. 242. Lardner, Captain J. L., commands the _Susquehanna_ at Port Royal, iv. 163.