 We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.  Annual Report - Stran 347avtor: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1918Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Henry Mann - 1896 - 350 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...Americans masters of the lake. The gallant Perry announced this victory in the following laconic epistle to general Harrison : " We have met the enemy and...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 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1839 - 594 strani
...masters of the lake. The gallan! Репу announced this л ictory in the following laconic epistle to general Harrison : '• We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two bngs, one schooner, and one sloop." f .„ made. Much properly was plundered and destroyed, and many... | |
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