| Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...officers. 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... | |
| David Ramsay - History - 1817 - 522 pages
...the navy 5 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 sloop ! Yours, with great respect and esteem. " 0. H. PERRY." And to the secretary of the navy, his letter ran thus : " SIR — It has pleased the... | |
| 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 ninety-six... | |
| John Milton Niles - United States - 1820 - 408 pages
...the western 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,...sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY. OLIVEfi H. PERRY. 151 brated words of Caesar, vem, vidi, utct.J These letters have a similitude to... | |
| John Milton Niles - United States - 1821 - 456 pages
...Erie, Sept. JO//», 1813, 4 o^clock, PM J Bear G'.ienl — We have met the enemy, and they are our'e. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH of the celebrated words of Caesar, veni, vidi, vici,* These letters have a similitude to Nelson's,... | |
| John Milton Niles - United States - 1821 - 410 pages
...Sept. Wth, 1313, 4 o'clock, PM $ Dear General — We have met the enemy, and they are our's. Two chips, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY of the celebrated words of Caesar, veni, vidi, rici.* These letters have a similitude to Nelson's,... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares - History - 1825 - 608 pages
...gallant Perry 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 predatory... | |
| Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 650 pages
...100. The 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." a The Americans were now masters of the lake ; but the territory was still in the possession of colonel... | |
| Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 606 pages
...100. The 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... | |
| Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...hundred. The 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 possession... | |
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