The Shining Sea (61 page)

Loire
(privateer ship),
164

Louisiana,
38–39
,
40
,
110
,
270
.
See also
New Orleans (battle at)

Luisa, Queen Maria,
103
,
105

Lyman, James,
241–242

Mackenna, Juan,
218

Mackenzie, Alexander,
165

Madison, James

       
as leader during War of 1812,
x

       
at end of War of 1812,
264–265

       
Hamilton (Paul) and,
150

       
in early months of War of 1812,
42
,
43
,
78–79

       
on Britain,
112

       
Porter (David, Jr.) and,
83
,
151
,
252
,
263–264
,
273

       
reelection of,
164

       
South America and,
110–111
,
113
,
114

       
U.S. Navy and,
49

       
War of 1812 and,
263

       
war plan of,
9–16

Maley, William,
20

Malta,
36
,
44

Manuel I (of Portugal),
72

Mapuches,
98

Marion, Francis,
39

Marquesas Islands,
171–184
.
See also
Nuku Hiva

Mashuda
(Algerian ship),
266

Massachusetts,
49–51

Mastico
(Tripolitan ketch),
33

Maury, John Minor,
187–188
,
191
,
226

McDonald, John,
168

McKnight, James,
158

McKnight, Stephen Decatur,
5
,
8

       
father of, in a duel,
158

       
in Pacific (during War of 1812),
99
,
120
,
124
,
137
,
142
,
182
,
186
,
220
,
233
,
241–242

Melville, Herman,
185
,
189

Mendaña de Neira, Álvaro,
180

Mendoza, Don García Hurtado de (Marquis de Cañete/Spanish viceroy of Peru),
180

Mexico,
88
,
130
,
274
,
276–277

Miller, Lawrence,
115

Miller, Robert,
99

Miller, Samuel,
227

Mocha Island,
97–100

Molen, J. M.,
241
,
242

Monroe (U.S. Secretary of State),
114

Montezuma
(British whaling ship),
136
,
138
,
140–141
,
143
,
149
,
150
,
164
,
261

Montgomery, Alexander,
235

Morocco,
23
,
24
,
266

Morris, Richard,
22–23

Morris, Robert,
52

Mouina (chief warrior of Taiohae),
192
,
202–203

Mowattaeeh (chief of Hapa'as),
194–195

Murat, Marshall,
103

Mutiny,
163
,
172–178
,
209–214
,
257–258

Napoleon Bonaparte,
13
,
105
,
107
,
108
,
114
,
151

       
Britain and,
9–10
,
12
,
15
,
119
,
151
,
263
,
265

       
Iberian Peninsula and,
71
,
112

       
Portugal and,
66
,
103
,
107
,
111
,
112

       
Russia and,
10
,
13
,
79
,
108
,
113
,
265

       
Spain and,
98
,
103–105
,
107
,
111

Nash, James,
247
,
250

Nassau
(steamboat ferry),
251

Navy.
See
Royal Navy
;
U.S. Navy

Nelson, Horatio,
104
,
165–166

Nereyda
(Peruvian privateer),
120–122

New Orleans (battle at),
ix
,
x

New Orleans naval station,
38–39

New York Navy Yard,
41

New Zealander
(ship),
154
,
157
,
161–162
,
164
,
211
,
214

Nimrod
(privateer ship),
120–121
,
122
,
123
,
124

Nissen, Nicholas C.,
32

Northwest Company,
168

Nuku Hiva,
184–207
,
214
,
215
,
216
,
255–262

O'Brien, George,
219
,
220–221

Odenheimer, William H.,
138
,
139

O'Higgins, Bernardo,
108
,
218
,
244–245

Old Ironsides.
See
USS
Constitution
(Old Ironsides)

Oregon,
164–165
,
272

Osorio, Mariano,
244–245

Othauough (Marquesan chief),
182

Ottoman Empire,
26
,
277–278

Pacific,
83–96
.
See also
Porter, David, Jr., in Pacific during War of 1812
;
Whaling/whaling ships

Pacific Fur Company,
169

Pacific Northwest,
168–169

Paita (Peruvian port),
124–125
,
130
,
133

Pareja, Antonio,
108
,
109

Parker, Hyde,
177

Patriotism,
xi

Peace Establishment Act,
21

Peninsular War,
107

Perceval, Spencer,
11

Perry, Christopher,
xi

Perry, Oliver Hazard,
151
,
253

Peru,
106–107
,
108
,
117
,
218

       
after War of 1812,
267

       
Britain and,
124

       
Downes and,
164

       
Galapagos Islands and,
133

       
Hillyar and,
243–244
,
272

       
Porter (David, Jr.) in,
119–125

       
Watkins and,
133

       
whaling and,
117
,
120–121
,
129
,
130
,
144

       
See also
Calleo (Peruvian port)
;
Paita (Peruvian port)
;
Tumbes (Peru)

Pettinger, John,
259

Picaroons.
See
Pirates/piracy

Pigot, Hugh,
176–177

Pinkney, William,
111

Pipon, Philip,
224

Pirates/piracy,
20
,
133–134
,
154
,
267
,
268
,
274–275

Pitt, William (the Younger),
128–129
,
130

Pizarro, José Alfonso,
90

Platt, Charles T.,
275

Plattsburgh (battle on Lake Chaplain),
ix
,
x
,
253
,
265

Poinsett, Joel,
110
,
116
,
226
,
228

       
as consul general in Santiago (Chile),
109

       
background of,
111

       
Carrera and,
218

       
Chile and,
244

       
Madison (James) and,
111

       
Porter (David, Jr.) and,
117
,
150

       
South America and,
112–114

Policy
(British whaling ship),
136
,
137
,
138
,
143
,
150
,
164

Polynesian Islands,
155
,
172–174
,
197
.
See also
Marquesas Islands

Porter, David Dixon,
18
,
38
,
56
,
251
,
271

Porter, David, Jr.

       
after capture of
Essex
(during War of 1812),
262

       
after War of 1812,
265–266
,
267
,
273–278

       
Alert
and,
54

       
assigned to Bainbridge (William),
15–16

       
at beginning of War of 1812,
40–45
,
55–68
,
69–85

       
at end of War of 1812,
265

       
at New Orleans naval station,
38–39
,
40

       
children of Farragut (George) brought up by,
39–40

       
death of father of,
39

       
during war with Tripoli,
21–24

       
early naval assignments of,
17–24

       
family of,
55–56
,
251
,
277

       
first cruise of, during War of 1812,
1–8
,
9
,
14
,
15

       
in British port of Valetta in Malta,
35–36

       
in war with Tripoli,
21–22
,
24
,
25–36

       
introduction to/background of,
xi–xii

       
Irving (Washington) and,
37

       
leadership style of,
24

       
marriage of,
38

       
naval promotions of,
8
,
20
,
36
,
40
,
41

       
on
Essex
armaments,
47–49
,
54
,
58

       
on powers of sea captains,
65

       
sitting on courts-martial,
37–38

       
taking command of
Essex
,
54

       
See also
Porter, David, Jr., in Pacific during War of 1812

Porter, David, Jr., in Pacific during War of 1812,
131–133
,
154
,
250–253

       
after capture of
Essex
(during War of 1812),
247–251
,
261

       
beginnings of voyage to Pacific,
83–100