 | Abel Bowen - 1830 - 410 páginas
...THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. US Brig Niagara, off the Western Sister, SIR, Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813. It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of...on this lake. The British squadron, consisting of 2 ships, 2 brigs, 1 schooner, and 1 sloop, have this moment surrendered to the force under my command,... | |
 | William James - 1837 - 632 páginas
...commander announced his success over a Lilliputian British fleet on Lake Erie, in the following words : " It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of...a signal victory over their enemies on this lake." We remember, also, when looking over the log-books of British ships, and some hundreds have passed... | |
 | Tristam Burges - 1839 - 146 páginas
...General Harrison—" We have met the enemy, and they are ours." To the Secretary of the Navy—"It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of the...have this moment surrendered to the force under my command, after a sharp conflict." Nothing can be so conspicuous as the modesty, unless it be the piety,... | |
 | Tristam Burges - 1839 - 244 páginas
...10th, says, in his first despatch to the Secretary of the Navy, " It has pleased the Almighty to give the arms of the United States a signal victory over their enemies on this lake." Commodore Elliot, who, on that day, commanded the Niagara, says in the 35th page of his book : " It... | |
 | Samuel Jones Burr - 1840 - 320 páginas
...General HARRISON : — " We have met the enemy, and they are ours." To the Secretary of the Navy, " It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of...have this moment surrendered to the force under my command, after a sharp conflict." CHAPTER XXIV. Embarcation of the troops— Order of Battle— Battle... | |
 | Samuel Jones Burr - 1840 - 330 páginas
...— "We have met the enemy, and they are ours." To the Secretary of the Navy, " It has pleased *tbe Almighty to give to the arms of the United States...have this moment surrendered to the force under my command, after a sharp conflict." CHAPTER XXIV. Embarcation of the troops— Order of Battle— Battle... | |
 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - 1840 - 346 páginas
...might well justify the pious exclamation in which Perry announced it to the secretary of the navy : " It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of...United States a signal victory over their enemies." While a defeat would have given to the enemy the command of all the lakes, by enabling him to concentrate... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 374 páginas
...General Harrison — " We have met the enemy, and they are ours." To the Secretary of the Navy — «' It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of...have this moment surrendered to the force under my command, after a sharp conflict." Nothing can be so conspicuous as the modesty, unless it be the piety,... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 362 páginas
...To General Harrison—" We have met the enemy, and they are ours." To the Secretary of the Navy—" It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of...have this moment surrendered to the force under my command, after a sharp conflict." Nothing can be so conspicuous as the modesty, unless it be the piety,... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 páginas
...General Harrison, " met the enemy, and they are ours ;" and in another to the secretary of the navy, " It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of...United States a signal victory over their enemies. The British squadron, after a sharp conflict, have this moment surrendered to the force under my command."... | |
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It has pleased the Almighty to give to the arms of the United States a signal victory over their enemies on this Lake. The British squadron, consisting of two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop, have this moment surrendered to the force under... 
