 | Isaac Rand Jackson - 1840 - 234 páginas
...following brief but very acceptable note. " US Brig Niagara, Sept. 10th, 1813. DEAR GENERAL: — We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner and a sloop. Yours with great respect and esteem. OLIVER HAZAKD PERRY." By a happy coincidence, this glorious... | |
 | Isaac Rand Jackson - 1840 - 110 páginas
...Niagara, (iff the Western Sister, ire. ? September 10th, 1813. 4 r. M.5 "DEAR GENERAL, — We have met the enemy, and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner and a sloop. " Yours with great respect and esteem, " OUVER HAZARD PEBRT. "GEir. WH HARRISON." We will... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 378 páginas
...department. In both 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. 6. The... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - 1778 - 392 páginas
...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... | |
 | Consul Willshire Butterfield - 1848 - 264 páginas
...he received, on the 12th of September, at Seneca, a note in which Commodore Perry says : " We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and a sloop. " This important and glorious news spread, with the rapidity of an electric shock, throughout... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1855 - 382 páginas
...— ' " off the Western Sister, head of Lake Erie, Sept. 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, 0. H. PERRF." ' His breath quite spent with the various exclamation... | |
 | Robert Ellis Roberts - 1855 - 68 páginas
...known to the world in the following dispatch, written at 4 PM, of that day. DEAR GENERAL : — We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. With esteem, &c. , General William Jones. 0. H PERRY. Captain Chelsea Blake, that veteran sailor, so... | |
 | Robert Ellis Roberts - 1855 - 76 páginas
...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... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1855 - 314 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 398 páginas
...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... | |
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We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. 
