Oliver Hazard Perry Quotes:
Ocupation: Military Commander
Life: August 23, 1785 - August 23, 1819
Birthday: August 23
Death: August 23
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
source: Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3
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