note);
his retaliatory order for the burning of Newark, 334-335;
operations in the Chesapeake, 1814, 340-351;
plans for action against New Orleans, 383-388;
operations against New Orleans and Mobile, 388-396;
capture of Fort Bowyer, Mobile, 397.

_Cockburn, George._ Rear Admiral, R.N.
Second in command to Warren, ii. 155;
expedition to the upper Chesapeake, 1813, 157, 158;
in the Potomac, 168;
American vessel licensed by, 175;
attack at Ocracoke inlet, N.C., 204;
at capture of Washington, 348, 349;
expedition against Cumberland Island, Georgia, 388.

_Colonies._
Relations of colonies to mother countries in respect to trade, during
the period of American dependence, i. 24-28;
Montesquieu's phrase, 27;
Bryan Edwards' statement, 28;
John Adams' observation, 28;
supposed effect of, upon the carrying trade, 25, 26, 49, 50, 65;
and naval power, 51, 52;
the _entrepot_ monopoly, derived from colonial system, 12, 16, 24;
renewed by the Orders in Council of 1807, 27;
characteristics of the West India group of colonies, 32, 33,
and of those now the United States, 34, 35;
their mutual relations, as colonies, 31, 35, 36;
the imperial inter-action of the mother country, and the two groups
of colonies, 52, 55, 63;
British hopes of reinstating this condition, after the Revolution, by
substituting Canada and Nova Scotia for the lost continental
colonies, 48, 64;
effect of colonial traditions upon events subsequent to American
independence, 65-70, 75-79;
tendency to reimpose colonial restriction upon the new states, a
cause of War of 1812, 40, 87, 88, 90-92, 177, 178.

_Committee_, of the Privy Council of Great Britain, 1791.
Report on the conditions of British commerce since the independence
of the United States, and the probable effect of American
legislation for the protection of American carrying trade, i. 77-85.

"_Constellation._" American frigate.
Hopelessly blockaded in Norfolk throughout the war, ii. 11, 162, 178.

"_Constitution._" American frigate.
Chased by British squadron, i. 328;
captures the "Guerriere," i. 330-335;
the "Java," ii. 3-7;
the "Cyane" and "Levant," 404-406.

_Continental._
Distinctive significance of the term, applied to the colonial system
of Great Britain in North America, i. 32;
Bermuda and the Bahamas reckoned officially among the continental
colonies, 31 (note).

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