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The man who was to lead the Lake Erie fleet to victory during the War of 1812 was born on 23 August 1785, at South Kingstown, Rhode Island. The eldest of five sons and three daughters born to Christopher Raymond and Sarah Alexander Perry, the first son was named after his paternal grandmother's father, Oliver Hazard, and also for his uncle, Oliver Hazard Perry, who had recently been lost at sea. Oliver Hazard Perry was warranted a midshipman in the U.S. Navy on 7 April 1799. Over the next six years, he participated in the Quasi-War with France and the Tripolitan War against the Barbary pirates. During that period, Perry served on such famous ships as Adams, Constellation, Nautilus, Essex, and Constitution, but he was not involved in any of the memorable engagements of those little known wars. After an extended leave in 1806–07, Perry superintended construction of a flotilla of small gunboats in Rhode Island and Connecticut, a duty he considered tedious, until, in April 1809, he received his first seagoing c📍 Venue: Union Stage
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🗺️ Extended Address: Washington, DC 20024
🌆 City: Washington
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Union Stage, 740 Water Street Southwest, Washington, DC 20024, US, United States
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