Site Of Perry's Victory

Title Map of the surveyed part of the territory of Michigan on a scale of 8 miles to an inch
Contributor Names:  Farmer, John, 1798-1859, V. Balch and S. Stiles (Firm)
Detroit : [publisher not identified], 1826.

A Verse Commemorating Perry

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The Boasters Hurried To Leave Detroit

South Of Detroit And North Of Lake Erie

From Pioneer Collections...(recollections of Aura P. Stewart of St. Clair County, Michigan):

"On entering Smith's Hotel, he saw a number of British officers seated around a table drinking whiskey and discussing the probabilities of success to the British arms.  One of their number, a civil officer, after filling his glass and elevating it high, said, 'God will bless the British arms, and I drink to the success of our brave seamen now engaged.'  At that speech o the British official, father said he became excited, and knowing that he could gain no satisfaction by replying left the house in disgust; but soon after Mr. Truax returned from Malden and brought the glad news of Perry's victory [on Lake Erie]; it was then amazing to see the boasters hurry to get over the Detroit river."

David C. Bunnell

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From thence I was sent to the United States. Nothing remarkable happened to me from the time I left Marseilles until I arrived at my mother's house in York, Livingston Co., October 30. 1830. I had not seen my mother since I first left her twenty three years and seven months ago.

Commodore Perry In Battle

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Perry's Victory

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More Rentless And Destructive

An excerpt from the Life and letters of Judge Thomas J. Anderson...:

His [Thomas Anderson's] sons William, Joseph and Abner, took up arms against Great Britain in 1812. Under Col. Sanderson they went from Fairfield county, Ohio, and William and Joseph are mentioned in Sanderson's report now on file in the office of the Adjutant General of Ohio.

Joseph, under Gen. W.H. Harrison, died in the service at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, of camp fever.

Battle Of Lake Erie

William was in the battle of Lake Erie, (Perry's Victory,) lay sick a while at Put-in-Bay and after the invasion of Canada died at Malden or Fort Malden. They were good soldiers and true men, but were swept away by an enemy more relentless and destructive than the British and Indians--the poisonous malaria of the vast swamps of Northern Ohio.

George Sanderson's Ohio soldiers: 

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Commodore Perry Visited Long Point

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The battle of Lake Erie: a collection of documents, chiefly by Commodore Perry...:

Shortly after reaching the open lake, Perry visited Long Point, the enemy's naval station opposite Erie. Of this visit he wrote thus to the secretary on August 8: I have the honor to inform you I have returned from Long Point without having seen the enemy; we are now busily employed in getting in ballast, provisions, and pro curing volunteers from the militia. I propose sailing this evening in pursuit of the enemy.

Environs Of Detroit

A Tour from the City of New York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, By William Darby:

Route of General Harrison's Army in 1813 and spot marked where Commodore Perry captured the British Fleet are part of the map which was engraved for Darby's Tour.

We Have Met The Enemy

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Newport Men With Perry

A partial list of men from Newport, Rhode Island, who served with Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry:

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Last Formation....

...In the Battle of Lake Erie:

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We Have Met The Enemy; And They Are Ours

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Poem Celebrating Perry's Victory

From Songs, Odes, and Other Poems On National Subjects: Naval:

And bid them remember

The tenth of September,

When our eagle came down from her home in the sky,

And the souls of our ancients were marshall'd on high.

Ships Of Perry's Victory

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Perry's Victory On Lake Erie

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Ezra Younglove

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From Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets (Francois La Fontaine's estate):

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Wayne County Probate File  #143 [Image 551]

Francois La Fontaine's widow, Catherine de Joncaire de Chabert, 

married Ezra Younglove, a War of 1812 veteran.

First Formation

Battle Of Lake Erie (September 10, 1813):

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Avoiding A Duel

"Although Perry spoke very highly of Elliot in his official report and Congress decorated him, rumors of Elliot's animosity against his commander and observations from both British and United States experts that Elliot had not backed Perry's boldness as he should created a simmering controversy.  Various accusations and cross accusations in the press, including a defense by James Fenimore Cooper, resulted in Elliot challenging Perry to a duel and then facing a court-martial, a situation that the Cabinet desperately wished to avoid." [Source]

Indiana University has included a copy of Elliott's vindication as well as a brief summary of the feud between Perry and Elliot(t) :
THE PERRY-ELLIOTT CONTROVERSY
Alexander Murray. Opinion of the Court of Inquiry on the conduct of Jesse Duncan Elliott in the Battle of Lake Erie. 1815. (copy)  A handwritten copy of the court opinion clearing Jesse Elliott of any wrong-doing in the Battle of Lake Erie.

This site has a cast copy of Captain Jesse Elliott's Tribute Medal to James Fenimore

Cooper (the Fenimore Art Museum also has a copy of the medal online).

Proctor Deserted After Perry's Victory

From The naval war of 1812: or the history of the United States Navy during the ... By Theodore Roosevelt:

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"Some four thousand Indians joined Proctor, but most of them left him after Perry's victory on Lake Erie."