...knee, Perry wrote to Harrison, with a pencil on the back of a letter, his famous despatch : " We have met the enemy and they are ours ; two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." The control of Lake Erie by the Americans was now secured. Harrison pushed forward toward Detroit....

...The battle was won. Then it was that the famous message to General Harrison was written : " 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." The result of this victory was of great advantage to...

...OFF THE WESTERN SISTER, 1 " HEAD OF LAKE ERIE, September 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, "OH PERRY." " SEPTEMBER 11, 1812. "DEAR SIR, — We have a great...

...confidence ran through the American lines when Harrison received the famous dispatch from Perry: " We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." The young commodore was master of the lake. Harrison's army at once sailed from Sandusky Bay, and,...

...Niagara, off Western Sister, Head of Lake Erie, ) September 10, 1813. 4 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. "The above letters, you will notice, are dated the same...

...dispatch which will be remembered even when the action which called it forth is forgotten: ''We have met the enemy, and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." On the common on Put in-Bay Island, a weeping willow stands as a monument to the memory of those who...

...down on the British line and broke it, and at length compelled the whole fleet to surrender. " We have met the enemy, and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop," Perry wrote to General Harrison at the close of the battle. A similar engagement took place on Lake...

...dispatch which will be remembered even when the action which called it forth is forgotten: ''We have met the enemy, and they are ours ; two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." On the common on Put in-Bay Island, a weeping willow stands as a monument to the memory of those who...

...OFF THE WESTERN SISTER, \ " HEAD OF LAKE ERIE, September 10, 1813, 4 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." "SEPTEMBER 11, 1812. "DEAR SIR, — We have a great...

...FRENCH CANADIAN ABOUT THAT TIME. Battle of the Thames.. Death of Tecumseh. to surrender. " We have met the enemy, and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop," Perry wrote to General Harrison at the close of the battle. One of the most effective devices used...