Show Historic Battle BattIe The major naval engagement of Lake Erie during the War Var of 1812 in which the American fleet under Com Corn Oliver Hazard Perry decisively decisively decisively de de- de- de defeated the British force forestalled any cession of territory in the Northwest to Great Britain in inthe inthe inthe the treaty of peace and occasioned several immortal quotations quotations We We have met the enemy and they are ours 0 O. O H. H Perry ry and Capt James Lawrences Lawrence's dying admonition Dont give up the ship |