APPENDIX

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SOURCES OF INFORMATION

THIS list includes most of the authorities consulted. The abbreviations used in the footnotes are here indicated. Other works, cited only once or twice, are also referred to in footnotes.

State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States. [Edited by T. B. Wait.] Third Edition. Boston, 1819. [St. Pap.]

A large amount of space in the first nine volumes is devoted to relations with France under the Republic and Empire. Vol. x comprises confidential documents. American State Papers. Edited by Lowrie and Clarke. Class 1. Foreign Relations. Class VI. Naval Affairs. Class IX. Claims. Washington, 1832.

[For. Rel., Nav. Aff., Claims.] Class I contains everything in Wait's series, with additional material.

Compilation of Reports of Committee on Foreign Re

lations, U. S. Senate, 1789-1901. Washington, 1901. [Rep. Sen. Com.]

Treaties and Conventions concluded between the United States and Other Powers. Washington, 1889.

[Tr. and Conv.]

Contains notes of J. C. B. Davis on the various negotiations, which are also treated in Lyman's Diplomacy of the United States (Boston, 1828), Trescot's

Diplomatic History, 1789-1801 (Boston, 1857), and Moore's American Diplomacy (New York, 1905). Public Statues at Large. Edited by Richard Peters. Boston, 1845. [Statutes at Large.] A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897. By James D. Richardson. Published by Authority of Congress, 1900. [Richardson.] XIX Congress, I Session [102]. Message from the President, etc. In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, May 20, 1826. Washington, 1826. [Doc. 102.] Contains a large amount of material, including documents, reports, letters, etc., on the French spoliations before 1801.

A Digest of the International Law of the United States. Edited by Francis Wharton. Washington, 1886.

[Wharton.] Cases Decided in the Court of Claims. Vols. xxi and xxii. Washington, 1886, 1887. [Ct. Claims Rep.] Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. By William Cranch. New York, 1812. [Cranch.] Annual Report of the American Historical Association, for the Year 1903. Vol. ii. Correspondence of the French Ministers to the United States, 1791–1797. Edited by F. J. Turner. Washington, 1904.

[Amer. Hist. Assoc.] Writings of George Washington. Collected and Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. New York, 1889.

[Washington.]

The Works of John Adams. By Charles Francis Adams.
Boston, 1853.
[Adams.]
Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Collected and Edited by

Paul Leicester Ford. New York, 1892. [Jefferson.]

Narrative and Critical History of America. Edited by Justin Winsor. Vol. viii, chap. vi. Wars of the United States. By James R. Soley; chap. vii. Diplomacy of the United States. By James B. Angell. Boston, 1888. [Narr. and Crit. Hist.]

Contains an extensive bibliography, with critical discussion of authorities. For a bibliography of the French spoliations, see Boston Public Library Bulletin, May, 1885.

The American Nation. Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart. Vol. xi. By John S. Bassett. Vol. xii. By Edward Channing. Vol. xiii. By Kendrick C. Babcock. Vol. XV. By William McDonald. New York, 1906.

Contains many valuable chapters written from the most recent point of view and with exhaustive bibliography. Other general works are Henry Adams's History of the United States, McMaster's History of the People of the United States, and Schouler's History of the United States.

The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812. By Captain A. T. Mahan, U. S. N. Boston, 1894. [Mahan.]

A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy. Compiled by Charles T. Harbeck. Riverside Press, 1906.

This list is indispensable to the student of naval history.

United States Naval Chronicle. By Charles W. Goldsborough. Washington, 1824. [Nav. Chron.]

The author, who was forty-four years in the Navy Department, had easy access to original material, and has presented much valuable and reliable information. Statistical History of the Navy of the United States. By

Lieutenant George F. Emmons, U. S. N. Washington, 1853. [Emmons.]

Gives statistics and a list of captures.

Marine Rules and Regulations. Boston, 1799. By John Adams, President of the United States. [Nav. Reg.]

These regulations were complied while the navy was under the jurisdiction of the War Department, as is shown by frequent references to the authority of the Secretary of War; they occupy 44 pages of a pamphlet which contains also the act of March 2, 1799, for the government of the navy.

History of the Navy of the United States of America.

By J. Fenimore Cooper. London, 1839. [Cooper.] History of the United States Navy. By Edgar Stanton Maclay. New York, 1894. [Maclay.]

The author has rendered an important service to the student of naval history by bringing to light, from the naval archives at Paris, the official reports of the French commanders.

The Naval Temple, Boston, 1816.

Contains some of Truxtun's official reports.

Batailles Navales de la France. Par O. Troude. Paris, 1867.

Histoire de la Marine Française sous la Première République. Par Edouard Chevalier. Paris, 1886. Histoire de la Marine Française sous le Consulat et l'Empire. Par Edouard Chevalier. Paris, 1886.

The accounts in French naval histories of the engagements in this war are brief and inaccurate. The Frigate Constitution. By Ira N. Hollis. Boston, 1900. [Hollis.]

First Cruise of the United States Frigate Essex, etc. By Capt. George Henry Preble, U. S. N. Salem, 1870. [Essex.].

Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers. By J. Fenimore Cooper. Auburn, N. Y., 1846.

[Amer. Nav. Off.] The Lives include Dale, Preble, Bainbridge, and

Shaw.

Commodore John Barry. By Martin I. J. Griffin. Philadelphia, 1903. [Barry.] Contains many official letters (not elsewhere published) from the collection of Captain John S. Barnes, of New York, and other sources.

Life of Silas Talbot. By Henry T. Tuckerman. New York, 1850. [Talbot.] Moses Brown, Captain U. S. N. By Edgar Stanton Maclay. New York, 1904. [Brown.] Life and Services of Commodore William Bainbridge, U. S. N. By Thomas Harris, M. D., Surgeon U. S. N. Philadelphia, 1837. [Bainbridge.] Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. By Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, U. S. N. New York, 1843.

[Perry.] Life of Stephen Decatur. By Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, U. S. N. Boston, 1846. Memoir of Commodore David Porter. By Admiral David D. Porter. Albany, 1875.

[Decatur.]

[Porter.] Biographical Sketch and Services of Commodore Charles Stewart. Philadelphia, 1838. [Stewart.] Autobiography of Commodore Charles Morris. Boston, 1880. An Impartial Examination of the Case of Captain Isaac Phillips. Baltimore, 1825.

[Morris.]

[Phillips.] The Yankee Tar. An Authentic Narrative of the Voyages and Hardships of John Hoxse, etc. Northampton, 1840.

[Hoxse.]