The Shining Sea (56 page)

260
    
In spite of Gamble's protestations:
Gamble to Porter, in Bowen,
Naval Monument
, 128.

261
    
Tucker departed Tahiti on August 2:
Porter,
Journal
, 539–40.

261
    
On October 18, 1814, the
Cherub
left:
Gamble to Crowninshield, Aug. 28, 1815, in Crawford, ed.,
Naval War of 1812
, 3:778.

Epilogue: Four Lives After the War

264
    
Madison overlooked Porter's failings:
James D. Richardson,
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789–1897
, 10 vols. (Washington, DC: Published by Authority of Congress, 1900), 1:549.

266
    
His close friend Isaac Hull described him:
Linda Maloney,
Captain from Connecticut
:
The Life and Naval Times of Isaac Hull
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986), 288.

266
    
David Porter, to his credit:
Daughan,
1812,
405–11.

268
    
“the guilty perpetrators [are] made to feel”:
Quoted in Jeremiah N. Reynolds,
Voyage of the United States Frigate
Potomac (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835), 528.

268
    
After a long, but uneventful trip, Downes:
David F. Long,
Gold Braid and Foreign Relations
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1988), 78–80 and 253–56.

269
    
David Farragut loved the navy every bit:
Farragut,
Life of David Glasgow Farragut,
52–53.

271
    
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles said of Farragut:
Gideon Welles,
The Diary of Gideon Welles
, vol. I (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 230.

272
    
“one of the hardest victories of my life”:
quoted in Mahan,
Farragut
, 288.

272
    
James Hillyar's subsequent career:
William R. O'Byrne,
Naval Biographical Dictionary
(London: J. Murray, 1849), 345–46; J.K. Laughton, “James Hillyar,” in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, H.G.C. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. (London: Oxford, 2004), 239–40; Piers Mackesy,
The War in the Mediterranean, 1803–1810
(New York: Longmans, Green, 1957), 215–17.

274
    
“a man of far more than ordinary talents, indefatigable”:
Peabody Museum, BWC Papers: Rodgers to Crowninshield, Feb. 11 and 13, 1815, quoted in Maloney,
Captain from Connecticut
, 264.

276
    
“associate with those who were led by men in power to inflict an unrighteous sentence”:
Quoted in Long,
Nothing Too Daring
, 249.

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