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dc.contributor.authorBabcock, Elisha
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-03T17:35:37Z
dc.date.available2013-07-03T17:35:37Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-03
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/4524
dc.description.abstractVolumes of interest were published between 1812 and 1815 with articles about the War of 1812. Issue for Oct. 5, 1813 includes: A report announces the arrival of Commodore Rodgers in the U.S. frigate President, in the harbor from his "brilliant cruise" of five months. There is also a list of the captures Rodgers made during his cruise. The feature item in this issue, however, is the famous dispatch sent by Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie to General William Henry Harrison. The dispatch, taken from the Chillicothe Supporter, of Sept. 15, is datelined "U.S. Brig Niagara, off the Western Sister, head of Lake Erie, September 10th, 1813, 4 P.M.", and reads: "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." The dispatch is signed in type: O. H. Perry.en_US
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dc.subjectWar of 1812; Newspaper; Commodore Rodgers; Perry; Lake Erie; Harrisonen_US
dc.titleThe American Mercury, 5 October 1813 (vol. 30, no. 1527) - Newspaperen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-08-03T01:51:43Z


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