_Toey-wan_, steamer chartered by Captain Tattnall in the attack on Chinese forts, iii. 382–384. Tombigbee Channel, Mobile, lined with torpedoes, iv. 406. _Tom Bowline_, store-ship for Decatur’s fleet, iii. 271. _Tompkins_, American ship, ii. 352. Toronto, Canada, Americans plan to attack, ii. 339; a force under General Dearborn sent to attack, 340; stores and prisoners taken, 342. Torpedo boat, the first one built, i. 164; general principles and construction of a submarine vessel, 165. Torpedoes made of whiskey demijohns, iv. 350. Townsend, Commander Robert, iv. 369. Trabangan, Malay settlement, natives of, capture the American merchant-ship _Eclipse_ and kill Captain Wilkins, iii. 374–379. “Tracking” up a river, ii. 287. _Trajano_, Brazilian rebel warship, iv. 548. _Transit_, New London merchant-ship, captured by Confederate privateers, iv. 97. Treaty of Ghent, terms and conditions of, iii. 209; the real cause of the war ignored in the treaty, 210. Tredegar Iron Mills, Richmond, Va., the only gun and engine factory possessed by the South at the outbreak of the Civil War, iv. 46. Trenchard, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, wounded in a fight with Chinese, iii. 382. _Trent_, British mail steamer, Confederate Commissioners Mason and Slidell taken from, iv. 148; attitude of the British Government in regard to the seizure, 150–152; instructions to Lord Lyons, 152, 153; reply of Mr. Seward to the despatch of the British Government, iv. 154; review of Mr. Seward’s reply, 154–158; Commodore Smith’s comment on the reply, 156. _Trenton_, United States cruiser, ashore at Samoa, iv. 554. _Trepassy_, British brig, surrenders to the _Alliance_, i. 298. Tribute, paid to Algerian pirates by America, iii. 339; by England, 340. Tripoli declares war against America, i. 333; pays indemnity to United States, iii. 357. _Tripoli_, war polacre, is beaten by the American schooner _Enterprise_, i. 335. Tripolitans, treachery of, i. 335, 336. _Trippe_, American sloop, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. 295. Trippe, Sailing-master John, at attack on city of Tripoli, i. 366. Tristan d’Acunha, Island of, in the South Atlantic, Jonathan Lambert pre-empts, iii. 270, 271; a breeding resort for seals, _ib._; Decatur makes it a rendezvous, _ib._ _True Briton_, captured by the _Randolph_, i. 160. _Trumbull_, American galley, i. 89, 164. _Trumbull_, American ship, captures two British transports, i. 164; cruises along American coast with a crew of landsmen, 290; is nearly disabled, 291; attacked by three British ships and surrenders, 295–297.