US 4805a War 1812 Battle of Lake Erie imperf NDC block (4 stamps) MNH 2013

Item Specifics

Country

United States

Catalog Number

4805a

Stamp Type

General Issue

Condition

Mint (NH)

Stamp Format

Block

Year of Issue

2013

Item Description

Detailed Description
With the THE WAR OF 1812: BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE FOREVER® issuance,
the U.S. Postal Service continues its commemoration of the bicentennial
of a war that ultimately helped forge our national identity and gave us
our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." The War of 1812,
sometimes called "the forgotten conflict," was a two-and-a-half-year
confrontation with Great Britain that brought the United States to the
verge of bankruptcy and disunion.

The stamp's subject for the second year of the war is the Battle of Lake
Erie, which took place on September 10, 1813. For the stamp design, the
Postal Service selected William Henry Powell's famous painting, Battle
of Lake Erie. The oil-on-canvas painting, completed in 1873, was
commissioned by the U.S. Congress and placed at the head of the east
stairway in the Senate wing of the Capitol. It depicts Oliver Hazard
Perry in the small boat he used to transfer from his ruined flagship,
the Lawrence, to the Niagara.

To evoke the times, the color and texture of a contemporary map of the
war is used for the stamp sheet's background. A 19th-century engraving
of Perry by William G. Jackman (after John Wesley Jarvis) appears in the
margin of the verso text.10

After boarding and taking command of the Niagara, Perry attacked and
demolished the British ships Detroit and Queen Charlotte. He then penned
one of the most memorable phrases of the war in a report to General
William Henry Harrison: "We have met the enemy and they are ours."

Perry's triumph gave the U.S. control of Lake Erie and allowed the army
to recover ground lost early in the war. The British and their Indian
allies abandoned their outposts on the Detroit frontier and retreated up
the Thames River deeper into Upper Canada. General Harrison pursued
them and won the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, less than a
month after Perry's remarkable victory.

Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamp.

The War of 1812: Battle of Lake Erie stamp is being issued as a Forever®
stamp in self-adhesive sheets of 20. Forever stamps are always equal in
value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce rate.

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Seller Information

Seller

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04/25/2013

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Item Location

California, United States

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