War of 1812, events which led up to, i. 383; Great Britain fomented discord between the States of the Union, 384; used every means to harass American commerce, _ib._; impressed men by force to serve on English ships, 386; used the press-gang in foreign ports, 387; demanded right of search on the high seas, _ib._; used nothing to enforce an order but the cat-o’-ninetails, 389; American ships stripped of their crews, 397; five men off the _Baltimore_ impressed in the British service, 401; the affair of the _Leopard_ and _Chesapeake_, 402–413; case of the _Spitfire_ and _Guerrière_, ii. 7; tricky conduct of the officers of two British frigates, 15; war declared, 28; justified by the _Trent_ affair, iv. 140. War-ship, the first submarine, i. 157; the first Yankee, on fresh waters, ii. 264; development of the, from 1815–1859, iv. 1–9. Ward, Fleet Officer James H., his attack on the Acquia Creek batteries, iv. 81; killed, 82. Ward, Samuel, Rhode Island delegate to Continental Congress, i. 31. Warren, Fort, Mass., Mason and Slidell confined there, iv. 156. _Warren_, American frigate, i. 280, 283. Warrington, Master-commandant Lewis, iii. 66; attacks and captures the _Epervier_, 66–71; succeeds Porter in clearing the South American coast of pirates, 338. _Washington_, American galley, i. 89; on Lake Champlain, 99. Washington, George, and the Congress of the United Colonies, i. 27. Washington, D. C., conduct of the British sailors at capture of, ii. 418, 419. _Wasp_, schooner, of first American Navy, i. 40. _Wasp_ (No. 2), American sloop-of-war, fight with the _Frolic_, ii. 107–117; both the _Wasp_ and the _Frolic_ captured by the British frigate _Poictiers_, 118, 119; taken into the British navy and lost at sea, 119. _Wasp_ (No. 3), American sloop-of-war, cuts her way through British blockaders, iii. 81; fights and captures the _Reindeer_, 86–88; comparison of the two ships, 91; cuts out the _Mary_ under the convoy of the _Armada_, and is chased by the _Armada_, 92; encounters the _Avon_, 93; fights and disables her, 97; the _Castilian_ and _Tartarus_ appear and chase the _Wasp_ off, 97; captures two merchantmen and the _Atalanta_, 100; mysterious end of, 102–104. Waters, Captain Daniel, assists in capturing a British troop-ship, i. 203; desperate fight with two British sloops-of-war, 209. _Water Witch_, carries an exploring expedition to Parana, iii. 464. _Water Witch_, Federal war-ship, iv. 129–133. Watson, William H., Lieutenant, ii. 364; is cut down and carried off unconscious, _ib._; captures a pirate schooner off South America, iii. 335. _Watt_, British privateer, fights with the _Trumbull_, i. 291. _Webb_, Confederate ram, iv. 352. _Weehawken_, Federal ironclad, iv. 480.