 | Edward Everett Hale - Colonies - 1887 - 330 pages
...Barclay struck his flag at about 3 o'clock. " We have met the enemy," wrote Perry to General Harrison, "and they are ours— two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." The battle was hotly and well contested on both sides. The result gave the Americans the command of Lake... | |
 | Alexander Black - Ohio - 1888 - 344 pages
...confidence ran through the American lines when Harrison received the famous dispatch from Perry: " We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." The young commodore was master of the lake. Harrison's army at once sailed from Sandusky Bay, and, on reaching... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - New York (State) - 1888 - 668 pages
...knee, Perry wrote to Harrison, with a pencil on the back of a letter, his famous despatch : " We have met the enemy and they are ours ; two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." The control of Lake Erie by the Americans was now secured. Harrison pushed forward toward Detroit. A part... | |
 | Daniel Joseph Ryan - Ohio - 1888 - 226 pages
...The battle was won. Then it was that the famous message to General Harrison was written : " 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." The result of this victory was of great advantage to... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - United States - 1888 - 446 pages
...FRENCH CANADIAN ABOUT THAT TIME. Battle of the Thames.. Death of Tecumseh. to surrender. " We have met the enemy, and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop," Perry wrote to General Harrison at the close of the battle. One of the most effective devices used... | |
 | Education - 1888 - 758 pages
...dispatch which will be remembered even when the action which called it forth is forgotten: ''We have met the enemy, and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." On the common on Put in-Bay Island, a weeping willow stands as a monument to the memory of those who... | |
 | United States - 1888 - 722 pages
...Niagara, off Western Sister, Head of Lake Erie, ) September 10, 1813. 4 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. "The above letters, you will notice, are dated the same... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - United States - 1888 - 450 pages
...down on the British line and broke it, and at length compelled the whole fleet to surrender. " We have met the enemy, and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop," Perry wrote to General Harrison at the close of the battle. A similar engagement took place on Lake... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 514 pages
...OFF THE WESTERN SISTER, 1 " HEAD OF LAKE ERIE, September 10, 1813, 4 PM / " 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." " SEPTEMBER 11, 1812. "DEAR SIR, — We have a great... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 514 pages
...OFF THE WESTERN SISTER, \ " HEAD OF LAKE ERIE, September 10, 1813, 4 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." "SEPTEMBER 11, 1812. "DEAR SIR, — We have a great... | |
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We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. 
