Young folks' history of the United States . ing as he died, Dont give up the ship ! Afterwards,on Lake Erie, there was a contest (Sept. 10, 1813)between a British squadron of six vessels, and anAmerican squadron of nine ; these last being undercommand of Lieut. O. H. Perry. His flagship wasnamed the Lawrence, after the brave captain of the Chesapeake; and his flag had inscribed upon it the dying words ofLawrence. But thisship was almost de-stroyed in the fight;and Perry, gettinginto an open boat,transferred his flagto a second ship,and gained the vic-tory. When theBritish ships sur-rendered. P
Young folks' history of the United States . ing as he died, Dont give up the ship ! Afterwards,on Lake Erie, there was a contest (Sept. 10, 1813)between a British squadron of six vessels, and anAmerican squadron of nine ; these last being undercommand of Lieut. O. H. Perry. His flagship wasnamed the Lawrence, after the brave captain of the Chesapeake; and his flag had inscribed upon it the dying words ofLawrence. But thisship was almost de-stroyed in the fight;and Perry, gettinginto an open boat,transferred his flagto a second ship,and gained the vic-tory. When theBritish ships sur-rendered. Perrywrote to his com-manding officer, onthe back of an oldletter, We havemet the enemy, andthey are ours. This is said to have been the firstinstance in the history of the British navy of the sur-render of an entire squadron. Later in the war, Porter fought the Essex against two Britishvessels, for two hours and a half, and only surrenderedwhen his frigate was burning under him. The war lasted nearly three years; and in the last. LIEUTENANT PERRY. BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. 251 year (1814), the British troops took and plundered The thirdmany towns on the southern coast, and finally burned the Capitol, and the presidents house at also attacked New Orleans, which was defendedby Gen. Andrew Jackson, with a much smaller forcethan that brought against it. He built breastworks of£Otton-bales, and fought from behind them, repulsing
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