357;
instructions to, for New Orleans expedition, 385-386;
sanguine expectations of, after capture of Washington, 424-425;
succeeded by Sir Edward Pakenham for New Orleans expedition, 392, 427.
_Rottenburg, De._
British general in command on Niagara frontier June, 1813, ii. 69;
declines to detach to aid of Procter and Barclay on Lake Erie, 69;
proceeds to Kingston, with re-enforcements, in anticipation of
American attack, 110-111;
despatches detachment in pursuit of Wilkinson's movement down the St.
Lawrence, 114.
_Russell, Jonathan._
American _charge d'affaires_ in France, after Armstrong's departure,
i. 247;
correspondence with American and French Governments relative to the
alleged repeal of the French Decrees, quoted, 247, 267, 268;
transferred as _charge_ to London, 264;
correspondence as such with American and British Governments, quoted,
264, 266, 272-278;
opinion of the alleged French Decree of April 28, 1811, 272, 276;
negotiation with Castlereagh, after declaration of war, looking to
suspension of hostilities, ii. 409-411;
appointed additional peace commissioner at Ghent, 413.
_Russia._
Offers in 1812 mediation between Great Britain and United States,
ii. 411;
accepted by United States, but rejected by Great Britain, 412;
attitude of Czar towards America, 423-124, 428.
_Sackett's Harbor._ American naval station on Lake Ontario.
Conditions at, i. 302, 309, 363, 374, 376; ii. 37, 38, 50, 104-106,
110-113, 119, 276, 278, 280, 281, 291, 304;
ships constructed at, 364, 366, 377; ii. 49, 276, 283, 291, 318 (note);
attack upon, by Prevost and Yeo, ii. 42-45;
Brown's march from, to Niagara frontier, 281;
Yeo's blockade of, 285,
abandoned, 290;
Izard's march to, on way to support Brown at Niagara, 319-320;
Chauncey retires finally to, after launch of the British "St.
Lawrence," 323;
destruction of, prescribed to Prevost by instructions, in 1814, 329, 362;
Yeo's observations at, 318 (note).
_Seaboard, United States._
Conditions on, i. 296-298, 300, 310-313, 360, 393, 404-406;
ii. 15-19, 24-27, 127-128, 148-150, 152-155, 202;
Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, 1813, ii. 155-178;
three divisions of the seaboard, Northern, Middle, and Southern, 178;
distinctive topographical features of each, 178, 179, 183, 184, 193, 195;
proportionate effect of the war upon each, with reasons therefor,
179-183;
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