Life — June 9, 1898 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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and at this work he was a grand suc- cess, In 1813, on April 25th, Captain Chaun- cey took York (now Toronto), On May 27th. with Perry's assistance, be took Fort George, and on October 5th cap- tured tive gunboats filled with troops aod. released 200 American prisoners. A num- ber of other engagements took place on Lake Ontario in 1813 and 1814, but they R were not important as affecting the final result, “WE HAVE MET THE THEY ARE OURS, MY AND “* SOLD Barclay one day to Proctor did say, “I’m tired of Jamaica and cherry; So let us go down to that new floating town And get some American Perry. Oh, cheap American Perry! Most pleasant American Perry i We need only bear down, knock and call, And we'll have tho American Perry!” ‘LIFE: * All ready for play. they got under way With heart and band right voluntary, And when they came there they quickly did stare At the taste of American Perry. Oh, the American Perry! ‘The sparkling American Perry! How great the deception, when such a ro- ception They met from American Perry!” On the 10th of September, at half-past * Aro you ready, boys?” “ All ready, sir.” ten in the morning, Oliver Hazard Perry stood on the deck of the brig Lawrence, the flag-ship of his squadron, and un- folded a blue battle flag. Turning to the crew, who were ranged in front of him, he said: ** Boys, this flag has on it the words of James Lawrence, ‘Don't give up the ship!’ Shall I hoist it?” “Ay, ay, sir!” came from a hundred throats, and up it went to the royal masthead. The enemy’s fleet was in sight. There were six vessels in all, commanded by 489 Robert Barclay, who had been wounded under Nelson at Trafalgar. The Amer- ican ficet consisted of nine vessels, the brigs Lawrence, Niagara and Caledonia, the schooners Ariel, Tigress, Porcupine, Scorpion and Somers, and the sloop Trippe—in all, fifty-four guns and 490 men. The British squadron consisted of the flagship Detroit, the ship Queen Char- lotte, the brigs Lady Prevost and [unter, the schooner Chippewa and the schooner Little Belt—sixty-three guns und 502 men. Nearly 200 of Perry's men, how- ever, were sick and unable to fight. . * * As the youthful Commander stood on the deck of his little brig, his mind reverted to the events of the preceding year. In the face of immense odds, he had succeeded in getting his little fleet together at Erie. Then, when two of his vessels were built, he was unable to get them out into the lake, as they drew too much comicbooks.com