Oliver Hazard Perry quote: We have met the enemy and they are ours.

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

Oliver Hazard Perry

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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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We have met the enemy and they are ours. - Oliver Hazard Perry

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