Six months of patient labour on both sides were required to put the squadrons into fighting condition; but when, on the afternoon of September 10, Perry had fought the fight to a finish, the British squadron belonged to him.
This passage celebrates Perry's decisive victory and the transformation of the American naval forces during the War of 1812.
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