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	Battle of Lake Erie
		The Battle of Lake Erie was fought on September 10, 1813, during the War of 1812.
		However, Perry was able to transfer command to the USS Niagara, a ship equal in size and strength to the Lawrence, but which had not yet been engaged in the battle.
		After the battle, Perry sent his famous message to General William Henry Harrison, "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Due to the outcome of the battle, Britain retreated from Detroit and lost control of Lake Erie for the remainder of the war.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Battle_of_Lake_Erie.html (217 words)

	USS Lake Erie (CG 70)
		USS LAKE ERIE, with the USS CONSTELLATION (CV 64) Battle Group, then departed 5th Fleet's Area of Responsibility (AOR) on August 17, 1997 on schedule to continue its routine six-month deployment in the waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
		USS LAKE ERIE and USS PORT ROYAL were then to conduct at sea testing, develop core doctrine and tactics, and serve as focal points for putting the TBMD technology in the hands of the warfighters in the rest of the fleet.
		USS SHILOH (CG 67) had conducted the first ALI live firing test in September 1999 and had successfully demonstrated the launch and flight sequence through third stage separation as well as verified flight stability at extreme altitude.
	navysite.de /cg/cg70.html (2114 words)

	USS Niagara
		The first Niagara was built at Presque Isle (Erie), Pa., by Adam and Noah Brown under the supervision of Sailing Master Daniel Dobbins and Captain Oliver H. Perry, and was launched early in the summer of 1813.
		Niagara and the other ships of Perry's squadron were held at Erie both by British blockade and leek of crews, until 1 August, when the British squadron retired.
		From her deek he regrouped his squadron and eame down through the enemy line, Niagara pouring broadsides into the British ships until victory was secured, and with it control of Lake Erie, freeing the upper lakes from the threat of invasion.
	www.navyhistory.com /Brigatines/Niagara.html (456 words)

	The U. S. Brig Niagara - 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Beginning in 1913, the year of the Centennial Celebration, the Niagara was raised from her aquatic grave beneath the waters of Misery bay and after being restored, was towed by the USS Wolverine throughout the Great Lakes region.
		The Niagara was eventually moved to a dry berth along State Street where the venerable lady awaited her rebirth.
		The Niagara remained at her State Street berth until it was dismantled in 1987 when the vessel was rebuilt once again and returned to sail the Great Lakes and the waters beyond.
	www.sabolgallery.com /niagara_ornament.html (247 words)

	United States of America Congressional Gold Medal Recipient James Lawrence
		USS Chesapeake, a 36-gun frigate of 1244 tons, was built at the Gosport Navy Yard, at Portsmouth, Virginia.
		She was commissioned in early August 1813 and quickly began operations with a voyage to Detroit in search of the opposing British squadron.
		USS Lawrence, first of a two-ship class of 400-ton destroyers built at Weymouth, Massachusetts, was commissioned in April 1903.
	www.congressionalgoldmedal.com /JamesLawrence.htm (2865 words)

	CG 70 Lake Erie
		USS Lake Erie's primary mission is to operate with aircraft carrier battle groups or as part of surface action groups in extreme threat environments well into the 21st century.
		The USS Lake Erie's Keel was laid on 6 March 1990 and she was launched on 13 July 1991.
		USS Lake Erie's homeport in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, made the ship's participation in tests at the Pacific Missile Range Facility off Kauai cost-effective with the Navy anticipating that the ship would not deploy operationally again for about two years.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cg-70.htm (2471 words)

	History of the USS Perry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The most important person to remember in the history of the U.S. Brig NIAGARA is her relief commander during the Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry.
		The new commander watched Niagara approach his bow and decided the best course of action was to swing his ship around so that his starboard cannon, unused up to that time, could be brought into action.
		Niagara is now on display in Erie, Pa. Detroit was sent over Niagara Falls in 1841 as part of a public spectacle.
	www.ussperry.org /history.html (6306 words)

	USS Asp
		The warships arrived at Niagara on the 27th and loaded a force of American troops to repeat the attack on York carried out the previous summer.
		Rile Asp and the rest of the American sq quadron were still at Niagara, the British squadron appeared off the anchorage on the 7th.
		On one occasion, 17 November 1813, she assisted in transporting 1,100 of General Harrison's troops from the mouth of the Genesee River to Sackett's Harbor.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/Brigatines/ASp.html (976 words)

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		The USS Sculpin was commissioned on January 16, 1939, and soon took part in one of the epics of submarine history, the rescue later that spring of the crew of Sculpin's stricken sister ship, the USS Squalus (SS-192).
		The USS Growler's flag is a classic of the early period of this art form, with the simple Jolly Roger motif in the hoist and the depiction of the boat's war record--white silhouettes representing sinkings by torpedo or by gunfire--in the fly.
		The USS Harder was commissioned on December 2, 1942, and was on her sixth war patrol when she was sunk with the loss of all hands on August 24, 1944.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzeohzt4/Seaflags/unofficial/unofficial.html (2708 words)

	Chapter 6: The War of 1812
		Van Rensselaer planned to cross the narrow Niagara River and capture Queenston and its heights, a towering escarpment that ran perpendicular to the river south of the town.
		The expedition against Montreal in the fall of 1813 was one of the worst fiascoes of the war.
		In the meantime, during December 1813 the British took advantage of the weakened state of American forces on the Niagara frontier to recapture Fort George and to cross the river and take Fort Niagara, which remained in British hands until the end of the war.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-06.htm (8946 words)

	The Battle of Lake Erie
		After she was completely disabled, with most of her crew wounded or killed, Perry transferred by boat to the undamaged Niagara, sailed her into close action, broke the British battle line, and forced Barclay to surrender.
		Niagara, towed by the USS Wolverine, visited Great Lakes ports and participated in ceremonies at Put-in-Bay on September 10, 1913.
		On September 10, 1988, the Niagara was launched in Erie ceremonies marking 175th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie and the ensuing peace between the United Kingdom and the United States.
	www.brigniagara.org /battle.htm (597 words)

	Why sail replica ships?
		The U.S. Brig Niagara is a reconstruction of the sailing warship which fought at the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813.
		Niagara is sailed by a mix of professional and volunteer crew.
		Niagara today has external ballast, carries only six guns rather than twenty, does not have to carry large amounts of consumable stores, and has the benefit of naval architecture to inform the officers of the ship's limitations.
	www.hnsa.org /conf2004/papers/rybka.htm (2779 words)

	Encyclopedia
		British general Isaac Brock, together with the northwestern Indians led by the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, captured Detroit, while on the Niagara peninsula two American armies were defeated.
		In 1813 American forces reoccupied Detroit after Oliver Hazard Perry captured the British fleet on Lake Erie, thus enabling William Henry Harrison to defeat the combined British and Indian forces at the battle of the Thames in October.
		In the fall of 1813 the war spread to the southwest frontier in a conflict with the Creek Indians, who were eventually defeated by forces under Andrew Jackson at the battle of Horseshoe Bend (March 1814).
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=225473 (1448 words)

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		He was placed under the command of Commodore Isaac Chauncey, who soon realized the young officer would be better suited to duty at Erie, Pa., where a fleet was under construction in order to win the lake back from the British.
		Despite shortages of men and materials, by July 1813, six vessels were ready and joined by others from Buffalo.
		USS Perry (DD 844) and other Navy vessels that have borne the name
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=ML_operry_bkp (380 words)

	War of 1812
		On June 1, 1813, the frigate USS Chesapeake was captured by the British frigate HMS Shannon, a vessel of equal size, as it attempted to leave Boston Harbor, and this somewhat counterbalanced the moral effect of previous disasters.
		On April 27, 1813 the Americans took York (now Toronto; see: Battle of York), and in May moved on Fort George; but a counter-attack by Yeo and Prevost on Sackett's Harbour, on May 29, having made the Americans anxious about the safety of their base, naval support failed the American generals, and they were paralysed.
		The burning by the American general McClure, on December 10, 1813, of Newark (Niagara on the Lake), for which severe retaliation was taken at Buffalo, was made the excuse for much destruction.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/War_of_1812.htm (4671 words)

	Buffalo, New York - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		In 1808 the new Niagara County, New York was formed (including what is now Erie County), and newly renamed Buffalo became its county seat.
		On December 30, 1813, during the War of 1812, British troops and their Native American allies captured the village of Buffalo and burned much of it to the ground.
		Erie and Niagara Counties have a combined population of 1,170,111 (2000).
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=3985 (2242 words)

	USS Buffalo (SSN 715)
		On the twenty-ninth of July in 1813, while serving a Lieutenant Samuel Angus’ flagship, the sloop BUFFALO took part in an attack on the British Frigate Junon and British Sloop-of-War Martin.
		In 1917, the USS BUFFALO transported a special United States diplomatic mission to Russia and upon her return was converted to serve as a destroyer tender.
		The USS BUFFALO is a streamlined, highly advanced, and complex fighting platform designed to defeat enemy naval forces alone or in consort with the modern Naval Battle Group.
	www.csp.navy.mil /css1/715.htm (706 words)

	Fighting Sail Exhibit
		Perry, undaunted, transferred to Niagara, Lawrence’s sister-ship, to continue the battle and win victory for the United States.
		After training and safety needs were met, crew from the Niagara fired at the replica from 2000 yards away, a distance that approximates the British Squadron’s actual position during the Battle of Lake Erie.
		Using two of Niagara’s carronades, fifty-three rounds of shot were fired with twelve 24 and 32 pound cannon balls as well as grape and canister shot.
	www.brigniagara.org /virtualtour/fightingsail.htm (546 words)

	gov_tomp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1801 and of the Assembly in 1803; was elected to Congress in 1804, but resigned to accept appointment as an associate justice of the New York Supreme Court.
		Daniel Tompkins was elected to New York governorship in 1807, 1810, 1813, and 1816.
		The effect of the latter victory caused the British to evacuate the whole Niagara river frontier.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/sail/gov_tomp.htm (350 words)

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - 1857 - Laying the Atlantic Telegraph From Ship To Shore
		Northward, close under our feet, the "Niagara" was anchored, broadside to the stream, the full swell of the Atlantic beating against her massive but gracefully-formed hull.
		She was then to give place to the tug and boats, arranged to tow the cable boats into shallow water, from whence the cable was to be hauled into the trench.
		At 4 the next morning there appears to have been considerable excitement on board in consequence of a barque bearing down upon the starboard beam of the "Agamemnon." She was, however, hove to on being intercepted by the "Valorous." On the 3rd August 776 miles of cable were paid out, being then in lat.
	www.atlantic-cable.com /Books/1857Isaac/index.htm (3501 words)

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		USS Monitor/CSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861, yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia.
		USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilson's trip to France in 1918, she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 8:00 am on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
		USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States; she was laid down January 6, 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard.
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	Commodore Perry (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		which were the dying words of Captain James Lawrence aboard USS Chesapeake in her fight with HMS Shannon on June 1, 1813.
		In that battle, the U.S. squadron consisting of Lawrence, Niagara, and 7 smaller vessels captured the British squadron (HMS Detroit, HMS Charlotte, and 4 smaller vessels, apparently the only time in history an entire squadron of the Royal Navy has been captured intact.
		This flag is best known as having flown aboard USS Chesapeake when it fought (and was captured by) HMS Shannon on June 1, 1813, and aboard USS Essex on March 28, 1814, when it was captured by HMS Phoebe and HMS Cherub off the coast of Chile.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/us-cpry.html (256 words)

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		Early in the spring of 1813 the United States began preparations to wrest the Lake Erie region from British control, as the two nations were still at war.
		Undaunted, Perry and four of his men transferred to the Niagara, which was still virtually undamaged.
		The Niagara, which saved the day for Perry, is on public view in Erie, Pennsylvania.
	www.nauticalsupplyshop.com /nautical-gifts/N6603-sailor-tag.html (466 words)

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		Set material condition Yoke.0545055506100627!OOD was given the conn, C/C 185°.0633 C/C 151°.0641Steaming in company with the USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA 31) and USS CHEVALIER (DD 805) operating in the Gulf of Tonkin in accordance with ComSeventhFlt Quarterly Employment Schedule, Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 1969.
		Condition of readiness III and material condition Yoke are set.rOn station in VERTREP Station, 300 yards to starboard of NIAGARA FALLS, replenishment course 020°, speed 12 knots.þSecured from vertical replenishment, C/S to 20 knots.
		Commenced ASW exercise with USS KYES (DD 787) and USS SPINAX (SS 489)2318=C/C to 270°, C/S to 15 knots, preparing to surface submarine.23240Submarine is on the surface, operating normally.*Secured from condition IASW.
	www.ussorleck.com /decklogs/xls/May_1969.xls (1329 words)

	USS Lawrence (1813) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first USS Lawrence was one of two 493-ton Niagara-class brigs built at Erie, Pennsylvania, by Adam and Noah Brown under the supervision of Sailing Master Daniel Dobbins and Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, for United States Navy service on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812.
		She was commissioned in early August 1813 and quickly began operations with a voyage to Detroit, Michigan in search of the opposing British squadron.
		Perry then transferred to her sister-ship, the brig Niagara, from which he fought the battle to a successful conclusion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Lawrence_(1812) (311 words)

	Leader-Captain Oliver H. Perry of the American Navy
		During the early months of 1799, the frigate USS General Greene was in the process of fitting out for service against France following the "X,Y,Z affair," and her captain, Christopher Perry, recommended his son for one of the coveted midshipman appointments.
		During that period Perry served on such famous ships as the USS Adams, USS Constellation, USS Nautilus, USS Essex, and USS Constitution, but he was not involved in any of the memorable engagements of those little known wars.
		Perry's flagship, the USS Lawrence, was incapacitated, but he went back and got the smaller USS Niagara, transferred the flag that read "Don't Give Up The Ship," (honoring the last words of Capt. James Lawrence of the USS Chesapeake) then went back and beat the British ships under the command of Capt. Robert Heriot Barclay.
	www.mywarof1812.com /leaders/perry_oliver.htm (919 words)

	Erie History
		The fur traders soon followed, and thus the geography of the upper lakes became well known before the St. Lawrence from Montreal to Lake Ontario was travelled by a white man, and while the regions to the south around Lake Erie were, as yet, known only through vague Indian rumor.
		The Niagara was retained as a storeship and also fell into disrepair.
		At the time of the centennial of the battle, the Niagara was raised, repaired and refitted.
	www.dinneratyourplace.com /historysite/school/eriehist.html (666 words)

	USS Niagara (1813) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The squadron sailed in search of the British 12 August, located it in the mouth of the Detroit River, and waited for its sortie.
		He then transferred to Niagara which had not closed the enemy in the earlier stages of the action.
		When Perry arrived on Niagara, he gave a terrified Elliott a dressing down, and took command and resumed the attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Niagara_(1813) (430 words)

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