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Title: The Mentor: The War of 1812
Volume 4, Number 3, Serial Number 103; 15 March, 1916.

Author: Albert Bushnell Hart

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LEARN ONE THING EVERY DAY

MARCH 15 1916

SERIAL NO. 103

THE MENTOR

[Illustration: Perry's Pennant on the "Lawrence"]

THE WAR OF 1812

By Professor ALBERT BUSHNELL HART

DEPARTMENT OF
HISTORY

VOLUME 4
NUMBER 3

FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY

Heroes of the Fleet

PERRY

"September the tenth, full well I ween
In eighteen hundred and thirteen,
The weather mild, the sky serene,
Commanded by bold Perry,
Our saucy fleet at anchor lay
In safety, moor'd at Put-in Bay;
'Twixt sunrise and the break of day,
The British fleet
We chanced to meet;
Our admiral thought he would them greet
With a welcome on Lake Erie."

--_Old Song_

LAWRENCE

"Let shouts of victory for laurels won
Give place to grief for Lawrence, Valor's son.
The warrior who was e'er his country's pride
Has for that country bravely, nobly died."

--_Lines published in June, 1813._

THE WAR OF 1812

By ALBERT BUSHNELL HART

_Professor of Government, Harvard University_

_MENTOR GRAVURES_

CAPTAIN JAMES
LAWRENCE

COMMODORE
STEPHEN DECATUR

COMMODORE
WILLIAM
BAINBRIDGE

_MENTOR GRAVURES_

COMMODORE
OLIVER HAZARD
PERRY

THE BATTLE OF
LAKE ERIE

GENERAL ANDREW
JACKSON

[Illustration: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry]

THE MENTOR . DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY MARCH 15, 1916

Our defeat of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War was conclusive;
though "we" in that case included France, without whose aid th