 | Henry Mann - 1896 - 350 страница
...officers. Perry wrote with a pencil on the back of an old letter his famous dispatch: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. ' ' The Americans lost in the battle twenty-seven killed and ninety-six wounded, of whom twenty-two... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1817 - 522 страница
...the navy 5 announcing the result to the former in the following words : " DEAR GENERAX, " We have met the enemy ; and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs,...one sloop ! Yours, with great respect and esteem. " 0. H. PERRY." And to the secretary of the navy, his letter ran thus : " SIR — It has pleased the... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - 1817 - 172 страница
...squadron, a thing almost unexampled in naval warfare. " We have met the enemy," said Commodore Perry, " and they are ours ; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." The number of prisoners exceeded that of the captors. Twenty-six Americans were killed, and ninety-six... | |
 | John Milton Niles - 1820 - 408 страница
...the western Lister, head oft Lake Erie, Sept. 1<MA, 1813, 4 o'clock, PM J Dear General— We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs,...sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY. OLIVEfi H. PERRY. 151 brated words of Caesar, vem, vidi, utct.J These letters have a similitude to... | |
 | John Milton Niles - 1821 - 456 страница
...Erie, Sept. JO//», 1813, 4 o^clock, PM J Bear G'.ienl — We have met the enemy, and they are our'e. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH of the celebrated words of Caesar, veni, vidi, vici,* These letters have a similitude to Nelson's,... | |
 | John Milton Niles - 1821 - 410 страница
...Sept. Wth, 1313, 4 o'clock, PM $ Dear General — We have met the enemy, and they are our's. Two chips, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, OH PERRY of the celebrated words of Caesar, veni, vidi, rici.* These letters have a similitude to Nelson's,... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares - 1825 - 608 страница
...gallant Perry announced this victory in the following laconic epistle to general Harrison : " We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop." 15. Chesapeake bay was blockaded by the British during the spring of this year, and several predatory... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 650 страница
...100. 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." a The Americans were now masters of the lake ; but the territory was still in the possession of colonel... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 606 страница
...100. 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."2 The Americans were now masters of the lake ; but the territory was still in the possession... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 страница
...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... | |
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We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. 
