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Authors: Dean King
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In his introduction to
The Perilous Adventures,
Burrows suggests that he believes Jackson was the prototype for Captain Frederick Marryat’s fictional character Peter Simple.
“The Woodwind Is Mightier than the Sword, 1809–1812”
This passage was taken from the chapter “Impressed into the British Navy’ in
James Durand: An Able Seaman of 1812, His Adventures on “Old Ironsides” and as an Impressed Sailor in the British Navy,
ed. George S. Brooks (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926), pp. 47–64.
The Life and Adventures of James R. Durand, During a Period of Fifteen Years, From 1801 to 1816: In Which Time He Was Impressed on Board the British Fleet, and Held in Detestable Bondage for More Than Seven Years; Including an Account of a Voyage to the Mediterranean,
“Written by Himself” was originally published by E. Peck & Co., of Rochester, New York, in 1820.
“HMS
Macedonian vs.
USS
United States, 1812”
This passage is from
Thirty Years from Home or A Voice from the Main Deck,
15th ed., by Samuel Leech (Boston: Tappen, Whittemore and Mason, 1843), pp. 122–53. Leech spent six years in the British and American navies. He was captured in the British frigate
Macedonian,
and afterward entered the American Navy Later he was then taken in the United States brig
Syren
by the British ship
Medway.
“An Unjustifiable and Outrageous Pursuit, 1812–1813”
Life on the Ocean; or, Twenty Years at Sea: Being the Personal Adventures of the Author,
by George Little, was first published in 1843. The sections reprinted here, chaps. 17, 18, 19, and part of 20, were taken from the 3d ed., (Boston: Waite, Pierce, 1845).
Little was released from Dartmoor prison at the end of the war. Later, his days as a merchant captain sailing from Baltimore were cut short by blindness. He became increasingly committed to temperance and Christianity, and the publication of his memoirs,
Life on the Ocean,
was at least in part to champion these causes.
“A Yankee Cruiser in the South Pacific, 1813,” and “Showdown at Valparaiso, 1814”
These passages were taken from
Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter in the Unites States Frigate Essex, in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814,
2 vols., 2d ed. (New York: Wiley and Halsted, 1822). “A Yankee Cruiser in the South Pacific, 1813,” is from vol. 1, chap. 5, “Run Down the Coast of Chile and Peru; Arrive at the Galapagos Islands,” pp. 108–26, and chap. 6, “The Gallipagos Islands; Prizes,” pp. 148-54. “Showdown at Valparaiso, 1814,” is from vol. 2, chap. 18, “Events at Valparaiso, Previous to the Capture of the Essex,” pp. 143–77.
“We Discussed a Bottle of Chateau Margot Together, 1812–1815”
This passage originally appeared as chap. 12 of
Naval Adventures During Thirty-Five Years’ Service,
vol. 1, by Lieutenant W. Bowers, R.N. (London: Richard Bentley 1833), pp. 272–302.
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A
CHATES, HMS
, 397
Achille, L’
(French ship),
183
Achilles, HMS,
213
Adamant
, HMS,
109n
Adams, Mate,
314
Agamemnon
, HMS,
55
Aigle
(French ship),
215
,
224
,
230
Ajugia, Cape,
357
Alcide
, HMS,
30
,
33
,
54-55
,
202
,
203
Aldrich, Mr.,
308
Alexander
, HMS,
38
Allemand, Adm. Lacharie Jacques Theodore,
212
,
225
Allen, Mr. Henry,
209
Allen, Vice-Counsel,
94
,
94n
,
95
,
97-100
Almyer, Captain,
297
Amelia
, HMS,
199
,
218
,
220
,
221
,
222
American privateers,
319
,
320-44
,
395-96
American Revolution,
xxvii
American ships, on coast of Peru and Chili,
350
Amitié, L’
(French ship),
129
Andrews, Capt. George,
202
Apollo
, HMS,
46n
Appleby, Thomas,
258
Arathusa
, HMS,
297
Archer, Mr.,
318
Arethusa
, HMS,
9
Argo
(merchant vessel),
13
“Arthur O’Bradley” (song),
42
Atkinson, Mr.,
173
Atlantic
(British whale-ship,
later
Essex Junior),
367
,
382
Auchinlick, Midshipman,
257
,
258
Audacious
, HMS,
16
“Audacious Cruise of the
Speedy
, The” (Cochrane),
120-36
Austria, declares war on France,
222
Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson
(Beatty),
183
Ave Maria
(Spanish ship),
132
Avranches, France,
265
Azores (Western Islands),
339
Babet
(French ship),
10
Bainbridge, Comm. William,
380
,
380n
Baird, Gen. Sir David,
188
,
235
,
245
,
245n
Baker, John,
196
Ball, Captain,
109
Bandy (ship’s cook),
8
Barbadoes,
294
Barclay
(American whale-ship),
345
,
346
,
349
,
352-54
,
356-60
,
365
Barfleur
, HMS,
73
,
71
,
79
,
120
,
235
Barnwell (Barnewall), Edward,
379
,
385
,
387
,
388
Barrère de Vieuzac,
31
n
Barrosa Ridge,
257
n
Bartowe, M. W.,
379
Basque Roads action,
xxvii
,
213
,
215
,
216
,
218-21
Batavian Republic (Netherlands),
44
,
156
Battle in the Aix Roads,
212
,
226-33
,
map,
227
Battle of Blenheim (1704),
58
n
,
80
Battle of Camperdown (1797),
87
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797),
xxiv
,
xxv
,
xxvi
,
64-87
,
169
,
180
map,
74-75
Battle of Copenhagen (1801),
169
Battle of Corunna (1809),
xxiv
,
xxv
,
xxvii
,
216
n
,
234-54
Battle of Malplaquet (1709),
58
n
Battle of Oudenarde (1708),
58
n
Battle of Rammiles (1706),
58
n
Battle of the Nile (1798),
119
,
169
Battle of Trafalgar (1805),
18
n
,
xxiv
,
156
,
159-68
,
233
and death of Nelson,
169-84
map,
163
Nelson’s signal for, xxiii,
161
,
161
n
,
171
Battle of Vimiera, Portugal,
233
Baugh, Capt. Thomas Folliott,
202
Baxter, Captain,
361
Bay of Bengal action,
xxv
,
108
,
109-19
Beagle
, HMS,
225
Beamish, Lieut. George,
276-77
Beamish brothers,
285
Beatty, William,
xxvi
,
168
,
169-84
Beaulieu La Loup, Captain,
111
Bedford, Capt. William,
213
Belle Caroline, La
(French brig),
131
Bellette
, HMS,
203
Bellona
, HMS,
222
Belson, Colonel,
257
n
Bentham, Gen. Samuel,
88
n
Bentinck, Capt. George William,
30
,
30
n
Beresford, Commodore,
218
,
219
,
226
Beresford, Sir J.,
219
Berkeley, Adm. Sir George Cranfield,
28
,
28
n
“Bermuda in the Peace” (Hall),
139-56
Berwick
, HMS,
36
Bethune, Drinkwater,
xxv
,
xxvi
,
64-87
Bickerton, Sir Richard,
187
,
289
Black Eyed Susan
, HMS,
91
Black Joke
(air),
39
Black Joke
(American privateer),
323
Blanco, Mr.,
370