 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1855 - 224 pages
...could give utterance to his sentiments. " Dear General—We have met the enemy—and they are cmis. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY." "United States Brig Niagara" he began—"off the Western Sister, head of Lake Erie, Sept. 10,1813,... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1855 - 314 pages
...Brig Niagara,' " he began—" ' off the .Western Sister, head of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1S13, 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 PEEEY.' " His breath quite spent with... | |
 | Robert Ellis Roberts - 1855 - 76 pages
...the world in the following dispatch, written at 4 PM, of that day. DEAR GENERAL : — We have met tho enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. With esteem, &c., General William Jones. O. H PERRY. Captain Chelsea Blake, that veteran sailor, so... | |
 | John Disturnell - 1857 - 412 pages
...conflict was made known to the world in the following laconic dispatch, written at 4 PM of that day : " Dear General : We have met the enemy, and they are...Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. " With esteem, etc., 0. H. PERRY. " Gen. William Jones." Mr. Powell, the artist, who painted the De... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pages
...world in the following laconic dispatch, written at 4 PM of that day : •« Dear Generai : We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. " Gen. William Jones." " With esteem, etc., 0. H. PERRY. Mr. Powell, the artist, who painted the De... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1859 - 222 pages
...of the victory to General Harrison, then at Fort Meigs, wrote the following laconic note: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours, — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." 27. In the early part of this year the British government declared the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays... | |
 | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council - 1861 - 148 pages
...the Secretary of the Navy, remarkable for their pith and brevity. To HARRISON he says, '• We have met the enemy, and they are ours : two ships, two brigs, one sloop, and one schooner." To the Secretary — " It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1862 - 440 pages
...the pregnant brevity with which the captor announced his success to his superior officer : " We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." That the entering into such a conflict on the part of America was one of the rashest acts recorded... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862 - 896 pages
...and after a terrible battle of three hours he was enabled to write to Ger»fcal Harrison — "We have met the enemy, and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." This was a most important blow upon the enemy, and gave the mastery of Lake Eric to the Americans.... | |
 | 1863 - 230 pages
...in the following laconic dispatch, written at 4 p. M. of that day : "Dear General: We have met thf enemy, and they are ours : Two ships two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. With esteem, etc., 0. H. PERRY " Gen. William H. Harrison." Sancluslty, "THE BAYCITY" capital of Erie... | |
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We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. 
