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After an intense bombardment of two and a half hours, the Lawrence fought the British fleet to a standstill, though the ship itself was severely damaged and four-fifths of its crew were killed or wounded. In a daring move, Commodore Perry abandoned his shattered ship and climbed into a rowboat with four crewmen. He took with him his battle flag, which he draped over his shoulders. The boat set out for the brig Niagara, braving heavy gunfire. Perry boarded the ship, took command, and turned the Niagara directly toward the British ships. The encounter was confusing and bloody, but brief. The damaged British flagship Detroit attempted to swing around, and its rigging became entangled with that of the Queen Charlotte, rendering both ships helpless against the onslaught from the Niagara. In short order, the smaller British ships also succumbed, and a mere 15 minutes after boarding, Perry had achieved an extraordinary victory. With it the British supply line to the Western frontier was severed, and within the month the British and their Indian allies were decisively defeated. He was the brother of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. According to 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Commodore Matthew C. Perry was a brother of Holland Lodge in New York City; Oliver, while often thought to be a Mason, was not one. http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_3_K_to_P.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo "We have met the enemy . . ." Pogo strip from Earth Day, 1971. Copyright 1971, 2005 OGPI Probably the most famous Pogo quotation is "we have met the enemy and he is us." More than any other words written by Kelly, it perfectly sums up his attitude towards the foibles of mankind and the nature of the human condition. The quote, a rephrasing of a message sent in 1813 from U.S. Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry to Army General William Henry Harrison after The Battle of Lake Erie stating "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," first appeared in a lengthier form in A Word To The Fore, the foreword of the book The Pogo Papers. Since the strips reprinted in Papers included the first appearances of Mole and Simple J. Malarkey, beginning Kelly's attacks on McCarthyism, Kelly used the foreword to defend his actions: "Specializations and markings of individuals everywhere abound in such profusion that major idiosyncrasies can be properly ascribed to the mass. Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle. "There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. "Forward!" 32
Marching Songs dedicated to Captain Orrin Welch, ca 1862 http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/display.pl?record=089.086.000&pages=4 33
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