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On September 10, 1813, an American squadron of Lawrence, Niagara, Caledonia, Ariel, Somers, Trippe, Porcupine, Tigress, and Scorpion won the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. Oliver Hazard Perry declared, “We have met the enemy and they are ours — two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.” In Erie's harbor, patriots built the fleet that achieved this victory. Captain Daniel Dobbins is remembered in connection with that effort.
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Erie, Pennsylvania · United States
