PERRY'S VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE.


Perry's Victory. Boston: Sold Wholesale and Retail corner of Cross & Fulton Sts, [c.1813]. Letterpress broadside with woodcut illustration, 270 x 200 mm. Leaf creased, spotted, thumbsoiling, laid down to second archival sheet.Rare printing with illustration of a popular song celebrating Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's naval victory over the British at Lake Erie, ensuring American control of the lake for the rest of the war. In part: "May heaven still smile on the shades of our heroes, / Who fought in that conflict their country to save, / And check the proud spirit of those murdering bravoes / Who wish to divide us and make us all slaves. / Columbians sing and make the woods ring, / We'll toast those brave heroes by sea and by land, / While Britons drink Cherry, Columbian's Perry; We'll toast them about with full glass in hand."