Editing Oliver Hazard Perry (section)

===The Battle Flag===
[[File:USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) flies a “Don’t Give Up the Ship” flag. (49966895161).jpg|thumb|{{USS|Theodore Roosevelt|CVN-71}} flies a replica "Dont Give Up the Ship" flag in 2020.]]

"Dont give up the ship!" became the battle cry of Oliver Hazard Perry. The phrase was uttered by Captain James Lawrence as he died after being wounded by enemy fire aboard the ''Chesapeake'' on June 1, 1813. Perry learned of Lawrence's demise at Presque Isle. He honored Lawrence with the name of a brig, called ''Lawrence''. A battle flag was needed, and the words of Perry's good friend were suited for the coming days.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |last=Skaggs |first=David Curtis |date=2013 |title=The Battle of Lake Erie and Its Aftermath |url=http://muse.jhu.edu.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/chapter/890518 |location=Ohio |publisher=The Kent State University Press |page=220}}</ref>

Margaret Forster Steuart was enlisted to make the battle flag.<ref name="auto"/> She was a resident of Erie Pennsylvania, wife of Army Captain Thomas Steuart and sister to Thomas Forster, both friends of Perry's. Forster was the commander of the Erie Light Infantry that had guarded the fleet.<ref name="auto"/> With the help of her two daughters, three nieces, and a cousin, she had the flag ready for Perry within just a few days.<ref name="auto"/> As of July 2009, Perry's flag, Steuart's work, and Lawrence's dying words can be seen today, with the flag on display in [[Bancroft Hall]]'s [[Bancroft_Hall#The_Rotunda_and_Memorial_Hall|Memorial Hall]] at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.