Landais refuses to attend a council of officers, 237; proposes to attack Leith, _ib._; delay and a windstorm prevent his landing, 240; meets a fleet of merchantmen off Flamborough Head, 243; the _Serapis_ bears down to meet him, _ib._; attacks the _Serapis_, 245; fight with the _Serapis_, 247–259; character of, 265; his account of events after the surrender, 269–272; arrives at Texel, followed by a British squadron, 273; flight of, 275; made a hero of, at Paris, _ib._; sails to America in the _Ariel_, 277; honors on his arrival, _ib._; denounced as a pirate by the British Government, _ib._; misrepresented by English writers, _ib._; his pride in being an American, 278. Jones, Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby, with a small flotilla, opposes the British fleet at New Orleans, iii. 232–238; he is cut down and his small force eventually surrenders, 236, 237; sent in command of a squadron to the Pacific coast, 388; strikes the first blow in the Mexican War, 390; lands at and takes possession of Monterey, _ib._; surrenders the town, _ib._; appointed chief officer on the Confederate ironclad _Merrimac_, iv. 188; takes command after Captain Buchanan is wounded, 209; returns with the _Merrimac_ to Sewell’s Point, 213. _Joseph_, British ship, captured by the _Surprise_, i. 124. _Joseph H. Toone_, Federal schooner, iv. 129. _Joseph Maxwell_, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser _Sumter_, iv. 415. _Joseph Parke_, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser _Sumter_, iv. 415. Jouett, Lieutenant James E., cuts out the _Royal Yacht_ from Galveston Harbor, iv. 138, 139; Lieutenant-commander of the _Metacomet_, 386. _Judah_, Confederate privateer schooner, destroyed at Fort Pickens, iv. 120. _Julia_, American schooner, ii. 268; captured by the British, 351. _Junon_, British frigate, becalmed in Hampton Roads, attacked by gun-boats, ii. 395; chases the _Constitution_ off Cape Ann, iii. 244. _J. W. Hewes_, merchant-ship, captured by Confederate privateers, iv. 97. _Katahdin_, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. 315. Kearny, Sailing-master Lawrence, attacks a party from the frigate _Hebrus_, ii. 420; captures the tender of the frigate _Severn_, 421. Kearny, Brigadier-general Stephen W., goes to the assistance of Commodore Stockton in Mexico, iii. 398; is repulsed and wounded, _ib._; marches to San Diego, _ib._ _Kearsarge_, American sloop-of-war, built, iv. 38. _Kearsarge_, Federal armored frigate, meets the _Alabama_ in Cherbourg Harbor, France, iv. 436; comparison of their armament, 437; description of the fight, 438–441; the best gunnery of the Civil War, 441. _Kearsarge_ (new), United States battle-ship, iv. 534, 536. Kedge anchor, use of, on the _Essex_, ii. 49.