A History, of the War of 1812-15 Between the United States and Great Britain
CHAPTER XVIII.
Naval Battles of 1814, 290,--Porter's Cruise in the Essex, 290.--His Campaign against the Typees, 296.--Destruction of the British Whaling Interest in the Pacific, 310.--Battle with the Phoebe and the Cherub, 312.--The Peacock and the Epervier, 320.--The Wasp and the Reindeer, 321.--The Wasp and the Avon, 322.--Destruction of the General Armstrong, 323.--Loss of the President, 325.--The Constitution Captures the Cyane and the Levant, 325.--The Hornet and the Penguin, 325.