There is a paint of Oliver Hazard Perry's victory at the Battle of Lake Erie in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse.
Ten states, including Ohio, have a Perry County. One in Kentucky also has a city named for him, Hazard.
Other places with Perry memorials are Erie, Pennsylvania, and Buffalo, New York. Also the new Rhode Island Statehouse in Providence.
This summer, the 200-foot-long tall ship SSV Oliver Hazard Perry will be launched in Narragansett Bay. It is the first full-rigged sailing vessel built in the United States in more than a century.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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