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" We have met the enemy and they are ours, two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. "
Hero Tales of the American Soldier and Sailor as Told by the Heroes ... - Page 146
1899 - 504 pages
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The Land We Live in: Or the Story of Our Country

Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...Perry wrote with a pencil on the back of an old letter his famous dispatch: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. ' ' The Americans lost in the battle twenty-seven killed and ninety-six wounded, of whom twenty-two...
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History of the Late War, Between the United States and Great Britain ...

J. C. Gilleland - Ontario - 1817 - 172 pages
...squadron, a thing almost unexampled in naval warfare. " We have met the enemy," said Commodore Perry, " and they are ours ; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." The number of prisoners exceeded that of the captors. Twenty-six Americans were killed, and...
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History of the United States: From Their First Settlement as ..., Volume 3

David Ramsay - History - 1817 - 522 pages
...announcing the result to the former in the following words : " DEAR GENERAX, " We have met the enemy ; and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop ! Yours, with great respect and esteem. " 0. H. PERRY." And to the secretary of the navy, his...
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The Life of Oliver H. Perry: With an Appendix, Comprising Biographical ...

John Milton Niles - United States - 1820 - 402 pages
...Lister, head oft Lake Erie, Sept. 1<MA, 1813, 4 o'clock, PM J Dear General— We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY. OLIVEfi H. PERRY. 151 brated words of Caesar,...
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History of the United States of America: With a Brief Account of Some of the ...

Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - United States - 1821 - 288 pages
...Information of this victory was thus given to General Harrison. «' Dear General..— We have inet the enemy and they are ours. — Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. Yours with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY." The American brig Argus, commanded by Captain...
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Elements of General History, Ancient and Modern

Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares - History - 1825 - 596 pages
...announced this victory in the following laconic epistle to general Harrison : " We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." 15. Chesapeake bay was blockaded by the British during the spring of this year, and several...
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The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year ..., Volume 2

Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...commodore gave intelligence of the victory to general Harrison in these words : " We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop."2 The Americans were now masters of the lake ; but the territory was still in the possession...
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A Book of the United States: Exhibiting Its Geography, Divisions ...

Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...commodore gave intelligence of the victory to general Harrison in these words : 'We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop.' The Americans were now masters of the lake ; but the territory of Michigan was still in the...
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The Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Volume 1

Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - United States - 1840 - 342 pages
...ample, since it expressed all that was necessary to be known. "DEAR GENERAL, " We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with very great respect and esteem, «0. H. PERRY." He also wrote the following letter...
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A Pictorial History of the United States: With Notices of Other Portions of ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - United States - 1844 - 378 pages
...instances he was as modest as we was laconic. To General Harrison he only said, " We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." To the secretary of war he said little more, except to refer to the good providence of God....
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