"Don't give up the ship", the dying command of James Lawrence in 1813 aboard the USS Chesapeake. Later it was stitched on a flag and raised by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812.
"Don't give up the ship", the dying command of James Lawrence in 1813 aboard the USS Chesapeake. Later it was stitched on a flag and raised by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812.
