...though 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...— ' " 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...

...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...

...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...