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    The Battle of Lake Erie, also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the shore of Ohio during the War of 1812...
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    Oliver Hazard Perry (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    He earned the title "Hero of Lake Erie" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie, receiving a Congressional...
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    victory in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The cruiser was the first U.S. Navy ship to be commissioned in Hawaii. Lake Erie was built by...
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    Lake Erie (/ˈɪri/ EER-ee; French: Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest...
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    USS Niagara (1813) (category National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, Pennsylvania)
    served as the relief flagship for Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. As the ship is certified for sail training by the...
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    in Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, in Ottawa County. It is one of several...
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    HMS Detroit (1813) (category Great Lakes ships)
    the Lake Erie squadron until the Americans captured her during the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813. Detroit was commissioned into the United States...
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    Perry on September 10, but Perry gained a complete victory in the Battle of Lake Erie. Perry hastily wrote a note to General Harrison stating: "We have...
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    of a preliminary battle between forces that participated in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The battle itself took place in the Lake Erie...
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    Erie (/ˈɪəri/; EER-ee) is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the fifth-most...
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    the one flown by United States Naval Forces at the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. The battle ensign is sometimes also flown by U.S. Navy warships...
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    Jesse Elliott (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    commander of American naval forces in Lake Erie during the War of 1812, especially noted for his controversial actions during the Battle of Lake Erie. Elliott...
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    The Lake Erie Islands are a chain of archipelagic islands in Lake Erie. They include Kelleys Island, Erie Island, Pelee Island, the Bass Islands, and...
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    USS Trippe (1812) (category War of 1812 ships of the United States)
    their defeated fleet. The Battle of Lake Erie, Trippe's only action in the War of 1812, assured American control of Lake Erie and enabled American troops...
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  • Lake Erie is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Lake Erie may also refer to: Lake Erie AVA, an American wine region in the Great Lakes region...
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    Cyrus Tiffany (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    African-American fifer and sailor who served in the War of 1812 under Oliver Hazard Perry. In the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, Tiffany is said to have...
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  • Thomas Claxton (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    in the War of 1812 after gallant service during the Battle of Lake Erie which took place 10 September 1813. He died of his wounds at Erie, Pennsylvania...
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    Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (category Landmarks of the War of 1812)
    commemorates the Battle of Lake Erie that took place near Ohio's South Bass Island, in which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led a fleet to victory in one of the most...
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  • of James Lawrence. USS Lawrence (1813) was a brig which acted as Commodore Oliver Perry's flagship during the first part of the Battle of Lake Erie until...
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    Stephen Champlin (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    capture of the British Little Belt during the Battle of Lake Erie, and later in the War of 1812 was wounded when his ship was taken on Lake Huron. Retired...
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  • Thomas Holdup Stevens (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    distinguished himself as captain of the sloop, Trippe, during the Battle of Lake Erie. In 1815, an Act of the Legislature of South Carolina enabled him to...
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    USS Caledonia (1812) (category Great Lakes ships)
    War of 1812 and took into American service. The brig played an important role with the American squadron on Lake Erie, and was sold at the end of the...
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  • Queen Charlotte (1810 ship) (category Great Lakes ships)
    of the Lake Erie squadron were captured at the Battle of Lake Erie. The ship entered service with the United States Navy, though after the defeat of the...
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  • River near present-day Fremont, Ohio. Battle of Lake Erie, Ohio (September 10, 1813): The pivotal naval battle, in which a squadron under Oliver Hazard...
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    in the south of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands. Mount Erie was named in 1841 by the Wilkes Expedition for the Battle of Lake Erie. The mountain...
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    South Bass Island (category Islands of Lake Erie in Ohio)
    Island is a small island in western Lake Erie, and a part of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. It is the southernmost of the three Bass Islands and located...
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    USS Oliver Hazard Perry (category Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates of the United States Navy)
    victorious at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the first ship and, as of 2019, the only ship of the U.S. Navy to bear the...
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    William Henry Powell (category Artists of the United States Capitol)
    born and died in New York City. Powell is known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the Ohio state capitol building and...
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  • Great Lakes. The ship was commissioned in 1813 into the Royal Navy and the United States captured her on 10 September 1813 following the Battle of Lake Erie...
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  • Henry Laub (category United States Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
    Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Wounded in the early part of the Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813, he was carried below but struck by a round shot...
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