 | Henry Mann - 1896 - 350 pages
...English 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 - 1817 - 522 pages
...of 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 schooner, and one sloop ! Yours, with great respect and esteem. " 0. H. PERRY." And to the secretary of the navy, his letter... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - 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 - 1820 - 408 pages
...off 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, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY. OLIVEfi H. PERRY. 151 brated words of Caesar, vem,... | |
 | Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - 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 Allen... | |
 | Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - 1823 - 288 pages
...greater. Information of this victory was thus given to Gen$val Harrison. " Dear General. — We have met the enemy and they are ours. — Two ships, two brigs, one schooner anil one sloop. Yours with great respect and esteem, " OH PERRY." The American brig Argus, commanded... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - 1840 - 342 pages
...though short, was 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 to the... | |
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We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. 
