Perry-Elliott Controversy
PERRY-ELLIOTT CONTROVERSY
PERRY-ELLIOTT CONTROVERSY. At the Battle of Lake Erie (10 September 1813), a major engagement of the War of 1812, Jesse D. Elliott, commander of the Niagara, did not move his ship to support the Lawrence, commanded by Oliver Hazard Perry, until the Lawrence was practically destroyed. This inaction led to a long running feud. In 1818, Elliott challenged Perry to a duel, and Perry pressed charges against Elliott for his conduct during the engagement. President James Monroe did not pursue the charges but the controversy raged on.
In 1839 James Fenimore Cooper was violently attacked by Perry's supporters for failing to criticize Elliott in his History of the Navy of the United States of America. Cooper not only won two libel suits, but based his Battle
of Lake Erie (1843) on the controversy surrounding the two men. Although another libel suit was also won by Cooper, his 1839 history was excluded for a time from the school libraries of New York State.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dillon, Richard. We Have Met the Enemy: Oliver Hazard Perry, Wilderness Commodore. New York: McGraw–Hill, 1978.
Mills, James Cooke. Oliver Hazard Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie. Detroit, Mich.: J. Phelps, 1913.
Walter B. Norris / t. d.
See also Lake Erie, Battle of ; Literature ; War of 1812 .
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
COCKFIGHTING SPURS BATTLE OVER CULTURE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/6/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and we don't bother anyone." Cockfighting is illegal in every state but New Mexico...Massachusetts was the first state to ban cockfighting in 1836, Oklahoma the most recent...that would have made participation in cockfighting a felony in New Mexico passed the state...
|
|
Cockfighting
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 11/16/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...00-00-0000 LIANE HANSEN, HOST: Cockfighting is illegal in 45 states. But it...campaign to outlaw it. Many consider cockfighting a barbaric blood sport. But as Matthew...rural life. MATTHEW ALGEO, REPORTER: Cockfighting is not very complicated. First, two...
|
|
Oklahomans to vote on cockfighting bill
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...winner. This is a typical scene at a cockfighting pit in Oklahoma, game fowl breeders...a felony to instigate or encourage cockfighting, keep places, equipment or facilities for cockfighting, to assist in cockfighting or to own...
|
|
Cockfighting on Web Enters Legal Arena; Broadcaster's Suit Challenges Anti-Cruelty Law
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the nation has a law banning cockfighting. But this match was held in...asks whether Internet feeds of cockfighting can be sold legally in the United...States, to people in places where cockfighting has been banned. The change...
|
|
Cockfighting opponents push signature proposal
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 10/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ballot slot for their initiative to ban cockfighting is also opposing a proposal that would...for the Oklahoma Coalition Against Cockfighting, said the organization is asking Oklahomans...State Question 698 does not mention cockfighting per se. However, it came before the...
|
|
Kansas House And Senate Weaken Anti-Cockfighting Legislation; Chambers Narrowly Accept Amendment that Protects Illegal Cockfighters
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 3/29/2002; 700+ words
; ...legislation designed to establish a strong law to combat illegal cockfighting in Kansas. Kansas is one of just six states without an explicit ban on cockfighting, though cockfighting itself is illegal under the provisions of the state anti-cruelty...
|
 "Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, NM)")
|
Latest fight over cockfighting ends the same.
Newspaper article from: Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, NM); 2/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...Dona Ana, that would have banned cockfighting. While a different bill is making...introduced a bill in 1989 seeking to ban cockfighting, and the arguments haven't changed...Proponents of the bill described cockfighting as a barbaric sport awash in drugs...
|
 "Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
|
Oklahoma voters to decide whether to end cockfighting.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 10/26/2002; 700+ words
; ...major political issue in Oklahoma. Cockfighting is a pastime Savage reveres, a practice...animal rights activists, who call cockfighting "the very definition of animal cruelty...initiative proposes to make aiding in cockfighting, and the possession of the game fowls...
|
|
|
EDITORIAL: N.M. right to ban cockfighting
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/21/2007; ; 581 words
; ...into law a bill that will criminalize cockfighting in the state of New Mexico. With the...the only state in the U.S. where cockfighting is still considered a legal activity...and Louisiana were hesitant to ban cockfighting, despite the enormous political pressure...
|
 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
|
Cajuns struggle to hold fast to cockfighting tradition.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 7/26/2004; 700+ words
; ...people flock to see every weekend is cockfighting. By 11 a.m., the seats are filled...launched a campaign to put an end to cockfighting in Louisiana and New Mexico, the only...hundreds of people who make up the cockfighting industry in southwest Louisiana and...
|
|
cockfighting
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cockfighting sport of pitting gamecocks against...ancient Greece, Persia, and Rome, cockfighting has been long opposed by clergy and...law in the United States forbidding cockfighting; England banned it in 1849. Cockfighting...
|
|
Blood Sports
Book article from: American Eras
...mounted on horseback. Gamecocks. Cockfighting was a contest between two roosters...one cock to kill another. Cities. Cockfighting, with its use of an enclosed space...far away as forty miles for a day of cockfighting which might include up to sixty birds...
|
|
cock
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...crows at first light or cockcrow , and is used in cockfighting . A cock is the emblem of St Peter (see Peter1...that won't do; the expression, which refers to cockfighting, is recorded from the late 18th century.
|
|
tropical karst
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...are large, more-or-less enclosed and polygonal depressions, sometimes termed cockpits because of their resemblance to cockfighting arenas, and systems of dry valleys, commonly dismembered by subsequent depression development. Bordering these negative...
|
|
Philipson, Sir Robin
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...characteristically semi-abstract, strongly-coloured, robustly worked, and often violent in expression—cockfighting was a favourite theme. He was a spirited promoter of art in Scotland and much admired for his personal charm as well as...
|
