Oliver Hazard Perry
United States Naval Officer (1785-1819) · United States · On the map · Died at 34
Oliver Hazard Perry was a United States Navy officer from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member of the Perry family naval dynasty, he was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and older brother of Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
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Perry (standing) after abandoning Lawrence, in a 1911 painting by Edward Percy Moran
![USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) flies a replica "DONT [sic] GIVE UP THE SHIP" flag in 2020.](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_%28CVN_71%29_flies_a_%E2%80%9CDon%E2%80%99t_Give_Up_the_Ship%E2%80%9D_flag._%2849966895161%29.jpg/1280px-USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_%28CVN_71%29_flies_a_%E2%80%9CDon%E2%80%99t_Give_Up_the_Ship%E2%80%9D_flag._%2849966895161%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) flies a replica "DONT [sic] GIVE UP THE SHIP" flag in 2020.
A view of the flag in Memorial Hall (in Bancroft Hall)
Mural: Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. (1959) by Charles Robert Patterson and Howard B. French, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Niagara joins the battle. Detroit and Queen Charlotte at right.
