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Sea of Glory

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by Nathaniel Philbrick


  California

  camera lucida

  Canada, boundary of U.S. and

  cannibalism

  Cape Carr

  Cape Disappointment

  Cape Flying Fish

  Cape Horn

  Cape of Good Hope

  Carr, Overton

  and Civil War

  as flag lieutenant

  in inner circle

  as Oregon commander

  promotion of

  and Rio Negro survey

  seamanship lacking in

  and Wilkes’s court-martial

  Cary, William

  Case, Augustus

  Cassin, John

  cat-o’-nine-tails

  Charles Doggett

  Chauncey, Comm. Isaac

  Chinook Indians

  circumnavigation of the world:

  by Bougainville

  by Ex. Ex.

  by Magellan’s fleet

  Civil War, U.S.

  Clark, Joseph

  Clark, William

  Clermont de Tonnere (Reao)

  Coast Survey

  Columbia Rediva

  Columbia River

  Astoria settlement on

  and Canadian boundary

  commercial trade on

  crossing the bar

  Frémont’s journey to

  Lewis and Clark Expedition to

  Peacock wrecked on

  plans for survey of

  surveys of

  wildness of

  Columbus, Christopher

  Colvocoresses, George

  Congress, U.S.:

  and Coast Survey

  Ex. Ex. approved by

  Joint Library Committee of

  petition for pay

  and Smithsonian

  support for exploration and surveys

  and Wilkes’s appointment

  and Wilkes’s naval rank

  Wilkes’s reports to

  Congreve war rockets

  Cook, James

  in Antarctica

  death of

  emotional outbursts of

  at Madeira

  Ne Plus Ultra of

  Pacific exploration by

  Cooper, James Fenimore

  coral atolls, origin of

  Couthouy, Joseph

  Craven, Thomas

  cultural relativism

  Cyane

  Dale, John

  Dana, James Dwight

  and Columbia River

  in Fiji

  on linear pattern of island chains

  on the Relief

  as volcanology pioneer

  writings of

  Dana, Richard Henry

  Darwin, Charles

  Davis, Alonzo

  Davis, Charles

  Davis, Jerome

  Davis, Capt. John

  Dean, John

  De Brosses, Charles

  Decatur, Stephen

  Deception Island

  DeHaven, Edwin

  Delaware

  Dickens, Charles

  Dickerson, Mahlon

  Disappointment Bay

  Douglas, David

  Downes, John

  Drake Passage

  Drayton, James

  Drayton, Joseph

  Du Pont, Samuel Francis “Frank,”

  d’Urville, Dumont

  Dyes, John

  earth:

  crust of

  hollow

  magnetic field of

  East India Company (British)

  East India Marine Society, Salem

  Eights, James

  Eights Coast

  Eld, Henry

  in Antarctica

  at Columbia River

  in Pacific islands

  at San Francisco

  Elliott, Jared

  Elliott, Samuel

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Emmons, George

  at Columbia River

  Fiji surveys

  and Malolo massacre

  and Pacific islands

  and San Francisco

  Upolu survey

  wedding of

  and Wilkes’s court-martial

  England, see Great Britain

  Ericsson, John

  Erskine, Charles

  in Antarctica

  book by

  at Columbia River

  on Georges Bank survey

  hatred for Wilkes

  in Hawaii

  learning to read and write

  punished by Wilkes

  Essex (frigate)

  Essex (whaleship)

  evolution, theory of

  Ex. Ex., see U.S. South Seas Exploring Expedition

  Fairfax, Donald

  Fanning, Edmund

  Farragut, Adm. David

  Fauxall, Edmund

  Fiji Islands

  bêche-de-mer in

  cannibalism in

  Malolo massacre

  map

  Nadelaiovalau peak

  natives of

  revenge sought in

  scientific studies of

  Solevu Bay attack

  subsidence theory proved in

  surveys of

  Veidovi captured in

  Fitzroy, Robert

  Florida

  Flying Fish

  in Antarctica

  and Columbia River

  desertion from

  Knox as commander of

  and Pacific islands

  Pinkney as commander of

  Reynolds as commander of

  Reynolds’s transfer to

  sale of

  Sinclair as commander of

  at Valparaiso

  Walker as commander of

  Fox, John

  France:

  Antarctic claims

  commercial interests of

  exploration sponsored by; see also d’Urville, Dumont

  Franklin

  Franklin, Sir John

  Frémont, John C.

  Galileo Galilei

  Garnett, Jonathan

  geodesy, studies in

  George (Chinook Indian)

  Georges Bank, survey of

  Gibson, Jim

  Gilchrist, Edward

  Gilliss, James

  Goetzmann, William

  Goleman, Daniel

  Good Success Bay

  Granby, Tom

  Gray, Asa

  Gray, Robert

  Great Britain:

  and Canadian boundary

  commercial interests of

  exploration standards set by

  flogging in

  and Pacific Northwest

  in War of 1812

  Great South Sea, see Pacific Ocean

  Greenhow, Robert

  Greyhound

  Guillou, Charles

  court-martial of

  journal of

  and Wilkes’s court-martial

  Hale, Horatio

  Hale, Sarah Josepha

  Hamer, Thomas

  Hamilton, Philip

  Harrison, George

  Harrison, William Henry

  Hartstene, H. J.

  Hassler, Ferdinand

  Hawaiian Islands:

  commercial interests in

  Ex. Ex. in

  Kilauea crater

  map

  Mauna Loa

  Reynolds’s last years on

  as Sandwich Islands

  settlement of

  surveys of

  volcanoes of

  Hawaiki

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  Hayes, William

  Hayne, Robert Y.

  Henry, Joseph

  Henry, Wilkes

  death of

  in duel

  and Malolo massacre

  and Pacific islands

  Henry Island

  Henry Lee

  Henry the Navigator, Prince

  Hero

  Herschel, Sir John

  Hibernia


  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Hudson, William

  in Antarctica

  and Antarctic land sighting

  and Columbia River

  and courts-martial

  in inner circle

  as Niagara commander

  and Pacific islands

  as Peacock commander

  and Peacock wreck

  as Porpoise commander

  rank of

  and Solevu attack

  and Veidovi capture

  Hudson, William Jr.

  Hudson’s Bay Company

  Hull, Isaac

  Humboldt, Alexander von

  Hydrography (Wilkes)

  hypoxia

  Irving, Washington

  Jackson, Andrew

  Jacksonian Democrats

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Johnson, Robert

  in Antarctica

  arrest of

  in Cascade Mountains

  court-martial of

  and Malolo massacre

  on the Porpoise

  as Sea Gull commander

  and Wilkes’s court-martial

  Jones, Comm. Thomas ap Catesby

  officers and men selected by

  withdrawal from Ex. Ex.

  Juan (servant)

  Juan Fernandez Islands

  Judd, Gerrit

  Kaeppler, Adrienne

  Kalumo (Hawaiian)

  Kamehameha I, king of Hawaii

  Kane, Elisha Kent

  Kennon, Capt. Beverley

  Key, Francis Scott

  King, Philip

  Knox, Samuel

  at Columbia River

  as Flying Fish commander

  and Pacific islands

  Krug, Rebecca (Reynolds)

  Lackawanna

  Lamayzie (interpreter)

  Ledyard, John

  Lee, Samuel

  Leonidas

  Leopard

  Lewis and Clark Expedition

  Lincoln, Abraham

  London Missionary Society

  Long, Andrew

  Lowenstern, M. Isidor

  Macedonian

  McKeever, Isaac

  McLoughlin, John

  Macquarie Island

  Madeira, anchorage at

  Magellan, Ferdinand

  Magellanic Clouds

  Malolo, Fiji

  Americans killed in

  massacre in

  revenge in

  Manila

  maps:

  Antarctica

  Fiji Islands

  first sail south

  Great South Sea

  Hawaiian Islands

  Oregon Territory

  track of U.S. Ex. Ex.

  Wilkes Land

  Marquesas, discovery of

  Martha

  Mason, James

  Mauna Loa

  and Kilauea crater

  pendulum experiments on

  prior ascents of

  summit reached on

  Mawson, Douglas

  May, William

  at Columbia River

  court-martial of

  death of

  duels fought by

  in Georges Bank survey

  in Hawaii

  and Pacific islands

  and preparations for voyage

  Reynolds’s friendship with

  Melanesia

  Melville, Herman

  Menzies, Archibald

  Meteorology (Wilkes)

  Mexican War

  Midway Islands

  Milky Way (islands)

  Missouri

  Mitchell, Samuel

  Moby-Dick (Melville)

  Morgan, Charles

  Morrell, Benjamin

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Narragansett Bay, survey of

  Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition (Wilkes)

  National Herbarium

  National Institute for the Promotion of Science

  Naulivou, Chief (Fiji)

  Naval Observatory

  Navy, U.S.:

  Articles of War

  careers in

  and Civil War

  conservative

  and courts-martial

  discipline in

  and dueling

  expeditions of

  files opened by

  officers of

  passed midshipmen in

  planning for Ex. Ex.

  pride of

  on Puget Sound

  rank in

  reform in

  in War of 1812

  Wilkes’s charts used by

  and Wilkes’s return home

  Wilkes undermined by

  Nelson, Horatio

  Neuville, Hyde de

  New American Practical Navigator, The (Bowditch)

  Newton, Sir Isaac

  New York Times, The

  New Zealand

  Niagara

  Nicholson, John

  Noir Island

  North Carolina

  North Pacific Expedition

  North Pole, discovery of

  Northwest Passage

  Oahu Jack

  O’Connell, Paddy

  Oeno

  Ohio

  Orange Bay

  Oregon:

  annexation of

  Hudson’s Bay Company in

  map

  settlement of

  survey of

  Wilkes’s report on

  Oregon:

  Carr as commander of

  at Columbia River

  and Pacific islands

  purchase of

  and San Francisco

  Pacific Northwest:

  commercial trade in

  exploration of

  Indians of

  oral traditions of

  surveys of

  see also Columbia River

  Pacific Ocean

  commercial interests in

  coral atolls in

  cultural relativism in

  Ex. Ex. plans for

  Ex. Ex. surveys of islands in

  explorers in

  as Great South Sea

  languages in

  map

  scientific interest in

  uncharted hazards in

  volcanic island chains of

  see also specific islands

  Pacific Station

  Pago Pago

  Palmer, James

  Palmer, Capt. Nathaniel

  Palmer’s Land

  Panic of 1837

  Paulding, James

  Peacock:

  in Antarctica

  Antarctic land sighted from

  and Columbia River

  court of inquiry on

  in Ex. Ex. squadron

  flag of

  in Honolulu

  Hudson as commander of

  morale aboard

  and Pacific islands

  repairs of

  Reynolds’s transfer to

  at Sydney

  at Valparaiso

  wreck of

  Peale, Charles Willson

  Peale, Titian

  Pearce, James Alfred

  Pearl Harbor

  pendulums, measurement via

  Penguin

  Pennsylvania

  Perry, Matthew C.

  Perry, Oliver Hazard Jr.

  Physics (Wilkes)

  Pickering, Charles

  and anthropology

  and Ex. Ex. collection

  at Fiji

  at Mauna Loa

  Piner, Thomas

  Piner Bay

  Pinkney, Robert

  in Antarctica

  complaints against Wilkes

  court-martial of

  and Flying Fish

  plate tectonics, theory of

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Poinsett, Joel:

  on Ex. Ex. as nonmilitary undertaking

  and Ex. Ex. preparations

  ill health of<
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  and National Institute

  as war secretary

  and Wilkes’s appointment

  Poinsett, Joel (cont.)

  and Wilkes’s rank

  Polk, James

  Pollard, George

  Polynesia:

  exploration of

  name of

  peoples of

  see also Pacific Ocean; specific islands

  Pomare II, king of Tahiti

  Porpoise

  in Antarctica

  and Columbia River

  in Georges Bank survey

  in North Pacific Expedition

  and Pacific islands

  and return home

  Ringgold as commander of

  and San Francisco

  Wilkes as commander of

  Porter, Capt. David

  Porter, George

  Portugal

  Potomac

  Preston, William

  Princeton

  Puget Sound

  Puhano (guide)

  Reao Island

  Reed, Mammy

  Reid, James

  Relief

  Long as commander of

  at Noir Island

  at Orange Bay

  return to U.S.

  sluggishness of

  at Strait of Magellan

  Renwick, James

  Renwick, James Jr.

  Renwick, Jane, see Wilkes, Jane Renwick

  Reynolds, Jeremiah N.

  and expedition plans

  and hollow earth

  and Potomac in Sumatra

  Reynolds, John

  Reynolds, Lydia

  Reynolds, Rebecca Krug

  Reynolds, Sam

  Reynolds, William:

  in Antarctica

  Antarctic land sighted by

  on Boxer

  changed relationship of Wilkes and

  and Civil War

  at Columbia River

  and courts-martial

  death of

  enlisted in Ex. Ex.

  as Flying Fish commander

  foot problems of

  in Hawaii

  health problems of

  in inner circle

  journals of

  leaving New York

  letters to his sister from

  and Malolo massacre

  marriage of

  May’s friendship with

  in Mexican War

  naval rank of

  and Pacific islands

  and preparations for voyage

  and return home

  surveys by

  suspension of

  at Sydney harbor

  transfer to Flying Fish

  transfer to Peacock

  transfer to Porpoise

  Wilkes described by

  and Wilkes’s narrative

  Rich, William

  Richmond, Bill

  Ridgely, Comm. Charles

  Riley (marine), flogging of

  Ringgold, Cadwalader

  in Antarctica

  and Malolo massacre

  and North Pacific Expedition

  and Pacific islands

  as Porpoise commander

  and San Francisco expedition

  Rio de Janeiro

  Rio Negro, survey of

  Ross, James

  Royal Astronomical Society

  Sac, John

  St. Louis

  Salem, Massachusetts, trade vessels from

 

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