Perry is best known for his post-Battle of Lake Erie proclamation: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Drawing on Perry's correspondence with the Department of the Navy in the Oliver Hazard Per
Experts weigh in on a pivotal engagement in the War of 1812 Few naval battles in American history have left a more enduring impression on America’s national consciousness than the Battle of Lake Erie,
In his study of William Henry Harrison, David Curtis Skaggs sheds light on the role of citizen-soldiers in taming the wilderness of the old Northwest. Perhaps best known for the Whig slogan in 1840—"T
The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812. Made famous by the American fleet commander Oliver Hazard Perry's co
The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes contains twenty essays concerning not only military and naval operations, but also the political, economic, social, and cultural interactions of individuals an
