. Le soldat volontaire de l'Amérique . , il doit avoir échoué à vaincre l'ennemi à l'occasion mentionnée.Oliver H. Perry, le héros du lac Érié, a reçu une éducation navale pratique comme Macdonnough. Hebas est un sage-navire à l'âge de quatorze ans, et a également servi dans la guerre de Barbarie. En 1812, il a été affréteur d'une flottille de bateaux à canon dans le port de New York, et au début de l'année 1813, il a été envoyé pour servir sous la direction de Chaucey, sur LakeOntario. Plus tard dans la même année, il a reçu la commande de l'escadron sur le lac Érié, et, ayant gottensa petite flotte de neuf navires équipés et prêts à l'action, il

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. The volunteer soldier of America . , he must havefailed to defeat the enemy upon the occasion referred to.Oliver H. Perry, the hero of Lake Erie, received thesame practical naval education as did Macdonough. Hewas a midshipman at the early age of fourteen years, andalso served in the Barbary war. In 1812 he had chargeof a flotilla of gun-boats in New York harbor, and early in1813 he was sent to serve under Chauncey, on LakeOntario. Later in the same year he was given the com-mand of the squadron on Lake Erie, and, having gottenhis small fleet of nine vessels equipped and ready foraction, he fought the battle and achieved the brilliantvictory which so illuminates the naval annals of our coun-try. He subsequently assisted General Harrison at there-taking of Detroit, and commanded the Java in Deca-turs squadron at a still later date. His victory over thefoe on Lake Erie was the first refutation of the Britishslander that there were no sailors in the American servicesufficiently versed in their profession to enable them to. UJ trU UJ < < u I1- SKETCH OF OLIVER H. PERRY. 531 fight in squadron. The defeat itself amply demonstratedthe great ability of the seaman who had received his onlyeducation upon the sea, while two actions of his in con-nection with the battle illustrate his gallantry as a sol-dier and the rare modesty of his character as a man. Nomore brilliant act of daring appears in the naval recordsof the world than that of Perry in passing in an openboat, exposed to the fire of the enemy, from his disabledship to the Niagara, to which latter he transferred hisflag. And certainly no great victory was ever heralded byconqueror in more simple and modest words than thoseused by Perry in announcing the result of the battle toGeneral Harrison. After his defeat of the Lydian King, the conquering Csesar wrote, / came, / saw, / con-quered. The glorious Perry simply said, We have metthe enemy and they are ours — not one word of thisremarkable dispatch containing

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