 | Benjamin Adams Hathaway - 1888 - 128 頁
...Lakes. 47. What was the dispatch Perry sent to General Harrison at the close of this battle ? " We have met the enemy, and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and a sloop." 48. Describe the Battle of Gettysburg. On July I, 2, and 3 the great Battle of Gettysburg,... | |
 | Lynds Eugene Jones - 1889 - 170 頁
...quarter of an hour the entire fleet surrendered. Perry used few words to announce his victory: " We have met the enemy and they are ours : two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." The victory on Lake Erie gave the American army an opportunity to invade Canada. Exactly a year later (Sept.... | |
 | 1918 - 622 頁
...engagements of the war, enabling Perry at its close to send the famous message to General Harrison, "We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." 367. Although so distinguished a citizen as SFB Morse proposed at the outbreak of the Civil War that... | |
 | Martha Finley - 1889 - 336 頁
...the victory in the battle of Lake Erie in the war of 1812, and wrote that famous dispatch, ' We have met the enemy, and they are ours, two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop.' "Then there were the great naval commanders of our civil war," Max went on. " I don't believe a greater... | |
 | 1890 - 492 頁
...and 91 wounded. Perry's letter to General Harrison reads as follows : " 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." That to the Secretary of the Navy : " Sir : — It... | |
 | 1890 - 1466 頁
...short, sharp, and decisive, and its result was summed up by Perry in his famous dispatch: " We have met the enemy and they are ours: two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." This victory gave the United States Lake Erie, and Harrison at once put his men on Perry's vessels... | |
 | 1890 - 492 頁
...and 91 wounded. Perry's letter to General Harrison reads as follows : " 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." That to the Secretary of the Navy : " Sir : — It... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 頁
...Commodore Perry holds an able pen ! He writes to [General Harrison] . . . : " 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, Q jj PERKY." al The Yankee Privateers. — Meanwhile, many Yankee... | |
 | Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society - 1891 - 360 頁
...memorable dispatch reporting the victory to General Harrison is well known in American annals: "We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.'' A large painting in the rotunda of Ohio's capitol represents the conflict at the time Commodore Perry... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - 1891 - 442 頁
...A 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... | |
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We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. 
