Blockade, rules of the Coast, i. 259, ii. 115. Barlow, Joel, Minister to France, i. 41. Barney, Captain, commands flotilla in the Chesapeake, ii. 116; at Bladensburg, ii. 125. Boestler, Col., i. 112; defeated at Beaver Dams, i. 221. Brock, General, i. 83; his death, i. 102. Broke, Commodore, chases the Constitution, i. 137; captures the Chesapeake, i. 246. Brown, General, at Ogdensburg, i. 116; defends Sackett's Harbor, i. 215; commands on Niagara frontier, ii. 75; at Chippewa, ii. 77; threatens English forts on the Niagara, ii. 88; his victory at Lundy's Lane, ii. 91; takes command of Fort Erie, ii. 107; his successful sortie, ii. 109. Brooks, Lieutenant, killed on Lake Erie, i. 279. Brooke, Colonel, succeeds General Ross, ii. 143. Bainbridge, Captain, remonstrates with the President against laying up the navy, i. 128; takes command of the Constitution, i. 151; captures the Java, i. 162; his character, i. 167; singular dream of, i. 167. Battle of Queenstown, i. 101; of Lake Erie, i. 279; of the Thames, i. 289; of Chrystler's field, i. 298; of La Cole Mill, i. 313; of Talladega, ii. 20; of the Horse Shoe, ii. 27; of Chippewa, ii. 77; of Lundy's Lane, ii. 88; of Bladenburg, ii. 124; of Plattsburgh, ii. 155; of New Orleans, ii. 215, 217, 221. _Bills_ in Congress, respecting minors, i. 225, ii. 187; army, 226; the navy, ii. 188. Blakely, Captain, of the Wasp, ii. 167. Boxer taken by the Enterprise, i. 250. Boyd, General, i. 297. Burrows, Lieutenant, commands the Enterprise, i. 248; captures the Boxer, his death, i. 250. Buffalo burned, i. 300. Bowyer Fort, defence of, ii. 201. Beasely, agent for American prisoners in England, ii. 286. Biddle, Captain, of the Hornet, ii. 249; narrow escape of, from a British man of war, ii. 253, 254. C. Cambria, British frigate, boards an American merchantman in New York Bay, i. 19. Canning, Prime Minister of Great Britain, i. 28. Chesapeake and Leopard, i. 32; Chesapeake captured, i. 236; exultation in England, i. 247. Campaign of 1813, plan of, i. 205; Third into Canada, ii. 67. Cabot, John, delegate to the Hartford Convention; George elected President of, ii. 194. _Congress_ revokes the restrictive system, i. 40; the Twelfth, state of parties, i. 42, 43; debates in, i. 45, 50, 52; second session, i. 224; Debates on bonds of Merchants, &c., i. 225; on army bill, i. 226; acts passed, i. 243; Thirteenth, i. 319; leaders of, i. 320; first session and acts of, i. 325; second session, i. 327; acts of, i. 345; third session, ii. 174; embarrassments of, ii. 188.