 | Thomas O'Connor - United States - 1816 - 338 pages
...Western Sister, head of Luke Erie, Sept. 10th, 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, OH PERRY." Hitherto we have seen the enemy beaten ship to ship, but now we... | |
 | 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." * The Americans were now masters of the lake; but the territory was still in the possession of colonel... | |
 | John Frost - National songs - 1846 - 392 pages
...celebrated than the first which the commodore wrote to the Secretary of the Navy. " 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." It is not proper to conclude the account of this victory without... | |
 | Robert Ellis Roberts - Detroit (Mich.) - 1855 - 68 pages
...this conflict was made known to the world in the fol lowing 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, &c., General William Jones. 0. H PERRY. Captain Chelsea Blake, that veteran sailor, so... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1855 - 382 pages
...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. PEBEr." ' His breath quite spent with the various exclamation points... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1855 - 224 pages
...satisfaction and could give utterance to his sentiments. " Dear General—We have met the enemy—and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. TLOUTS, with great respect and esteem, 0. H. PESKY." "United States Brig Niagara," he began—"off... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1858 - 604 pages
...worth quoting :— " US BRIG NIAGARA, i "September 10th, 1813 ; 4 p. M. j "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 HAZARD PERRY." Directly after, he forwarded... | |
 | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council - Cleveland (Ohio) - 1861 - 154 pages
...fleet, at four o'clock PERRY sent an express to HARRISON with these words: “DEAR Grmiui¿—We have met the enemy, and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.” As he wrote to the Secretary of the Navy, a religious awe seemed to come over him, at his wonderful... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Kansas - 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... | |
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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, OH PERRY. 
