Excerpt from The Battle of Lake Erie: Or Answers to Messrs. Burges, Duer, and Mackenzie It is thus substantially shown that the enemies of Capt. Elliott, first took ground in this controversy; or, at least, it is not proved. As has been asserted, that Capt. Elliot did. On this occasion, several letters were written, by different ofiicers, principally if not all of the Niagara, in justifica tion of the conduct of Capt. Elliott, most of which appeared in the journals of the vicinity of Lake Erie. Capt. Perry took no part against his subordinate, but, on the contrary, in answer to an application from Capt. Elliott, he wrote that officer a letter of the date of Sept. 18th, the battle having been fought on the l0th, expressing his indignation that any rumors to his prejudice should have been in circula tion. There is no reason to think that Capt. Perry, at that time, gave any other opinion in public. This may be termed the first controversy, though, on the part of the ene mies of Capt. Elliott, little was openly promulgated to the world. In a short time, with the exception of a few on the spot, the matter was in a great degree forgotten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.