We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours

September 10, 1813

Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British and makes his famous quote “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” during the War of 1812, Battle of Lake Erie. Nine vessels of the United States Navy captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This gave the U.S. control of the lake for the rest of the war. It was one of the biggest naval battles of the war.