BLUE JACKETS OF 1812. CHAPTER I. The Gathering of the War-Cloud. -- The Revolution ended, but the War for Independence yet unfought. -- Outrages upon American Sailors. -- The Right of Search. -- Impressment. -- Boyhood of Commodore Porter. -- Early Days of Commodores Perry and Barney. -- Burning a Privateer. -- The Embargo. -- War Inevitable CHAPTER II. War with France. -- The Building of a Navy. -- First Success for the Americans. -- Cutting out the "Sandwich." -- The "Constellation" and "L'Insurgente." -- The "Constellation" and "La Vengeance" CHAPTER III. Proposed Reduction of the Navy. -- Renewal of British Outrages. -- The Affair of the "Baltimore." -- Attack on the "Leander." -- Encounter between the "Chesapeake" and "Leopard." -- The "President" and "Little Belt" CHAPTER IV. The War on the Ocean. -- Commodore Rodgers's Cruise. -- The Loss of the "Nautilus." -- First Success for the British. -- The Escape of the "Constitution." -- The "Essex" takes the "Alert." -- The "Constitution" and the "Guerriere" CHAPTER V. An International Debate. -- The "Wasp" and the "Frolic." -- The "United States" and the "Macedonian." -- Ovations to the Victors CHAPTER VI. Bainbridge takes Command of the "Constitution." -- The Defeat of the "Java." -- Close of the Year's Hostilities on the Ocean. CHAPTER VII. The War on the Lakes. -- The Attack on Sackett's Harbor. -- Oliver Hazard Perry ordered To Lake Erie. -- The Battle of Put-in-Bay. CHAPTER VIII. On the Ocean. -- The "Hornet" sinks the "Peacock." -- The Blockade. -- Adventures of the "Sally." -- Hostilities on Chesapeake Bay. -- The Cruise of the "President". CHAPTER IX. Decatur blockaded at New York. -- Attempts to escape through Long Island Sound. -- The Flag-Ship struck by Lightning. -- Torpedoes. -- Fulton's Steam-Frigate. -- Action between the "Chesapeake" and "Shannon". CHAPTER X. Cruise of the "Essex." -- A Rich Prize. -- The Mysterious Letter. -- Cape Horn rounded. -- Capture of a Peruvian Privateer. -- Among the British Whalers. -- Porter in Command of a Squadron. -- A Boy Commander. -- The Squadron lays up at Nookaheevah. CHAPTER XI. War with the Savages. -- The Campaign against the Typees. -- Departure from Nookaheevah. -- The "Essex" anchors at Valparaiso. -- Arrival of the "Phoebe" and "Cherub." -- They capture the "Essex." -- Porter's Encounter with the "Saturn." -- The Mutiny at Nookaheevah. CHAPTER XII. Capture of the "Surveyor." -- Work of the Gunboat Flotilla. -- Operations on Chesapeake Bay. -- Cockburn's Depredations. -- Cruise of the "Argus." -- Her Capture by the "Pelican." -- Battle Between the "Enterprise" and "Boxer." -- End of the Year 1813 on the Ocean. CHAPTER XIII.