Brackenridge, War of 1812, pp. 57, 63, 65, 66.
415
Life of Brock, p. 193.
416
Smyth, Précis of the Wars in Canada, p. 167.
417
Armstrong to Eustis, Jan. 2, 1812. Armstrong's Notices of the War of 1812, vol. i, p. 238.
418
Captains' Letters, June 3, 1812. Navy Department MSS.
419
Ibid., June 8, 1812.
420
Captains' Letters, Sept. 2, 1812. Navy Department MSS.
421
Navy Department MSS.
422
Captains' Letters, J. Rodgers, Sept. 1, 1812. Navy Department MSS.
423
Letter of Sept. 1, 1812. Navy Department MSS.
424
James, Naval History (edition 1824), vol. v. p. 283.
425
Captains' Letters, Sept. 14, 1812. Navy Department MSS.
426
Naval Chronicle (British), vol. xxviii. p. 426.
427
Nov. 4, 1812.
428
Naval Chronicle, vol. xxviii. p. 159; James, vol. v. p. 274.
429
Sir J.B. Warren to Admiralty, Aug 24, 1812. Canadian Archives MSS. M. 389. 1, p. 147.
430
Of the three masts of a "ship," the mizzen-mast is the one nearest the stern.
431
The middle, where the yard is hung.
432
Hull's report, Aug. 28, 1812. Captains' Letters, Navy Department MSS.
433
The spritsail was set on a yard which in ships of that day crossed the bowsprit at its outer end, much as other yards crossed the three upright lower masts. Under some circumstances ships would forge slowly ahead under its impulse. It was a survival from days which knew not jibs.
434
Dacres' Defence before the Court Martial. Naval Chronicle, vol. xxviii. p. 422.
435
"Guerrière" Court Martial. MS. British Records Office.
436
Memoirs of Gen. Winfield Scott, vol. i p. 31.
437
Ibid., p. 35.
438
Hull to the War Department, March 6, 1812. Report of Hull's Trial, taken by Lieut. Col. Forbes, 42d U.S. Infantry. Hull's Defence, p. 31.
439