Set of 2. Full color inner of Commander Oliver Hazard Perry pointing with American flag draped over shoulder flanked by a barechested sailor rowing and a young sailor in uniform, battle rages in background, "We Have Met The Enemy And They Are Ours" below image; matching outer. 6x8½, 4½x4¼, chromolithographed and embossed on coated stock.

On 10 September 1813, after defeating the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie, Oliver Hazard Perry, commander of the American fleet, dispatched one of the most famous messages in military history to Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison: "Dear Gen'l: We have met the enemy, and they are ours, two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. Yours with great respect and esteem. H. Perry." In 1970 cartoonist Walt Kelly famously paraphrased the statement as "We have met the enemy, and he is us" in an Earth Day poster that featured characters from his long-running strip Pogo and mourned the sad state of the environment.