Oliver Hazard Perry

The Battle Of Lake Erie
Richard F. Snow | February 1976

"With half the western world at stake, See Perry on the middle lake.” —Nineteenth-century ballad

In the late summer of 1812 a Great Lakes merchant captain named Daniel Dobbins arrived in Washington. Read more >>
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