 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - 1840 - 346 strani
...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 secretary... | |
 | Isaac Rand Jackson - 1840 - 110 strani
...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... | |
 | Charles Stewart Todd, Benjamin Drake - 1840 - 184 strani
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 378 strani
...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 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... | |
 | Consul Willshire Butterfield - 1848 - 264 strani
...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 strani
..." 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,...and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, 0. H. PERRF." ' His breath quite spent with the various exclamation points which were introduced to... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1855 - 224 strani
...could give utterance to his sentiments. " Dear General—We have met the enemy—and they are cmis. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY." "United States Brig Niagara" he began—"off the Western Sister, head of Lake Erie, Sept. 10,1813,... | |
 | Robert Ellis Roberts - 1855 - 68 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
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We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. 
