We have met the enemy and they are ours?

Oliver Hazard Perry, after winning a bloody two hour engagement on September 10, 1813 between his squadron and a smaller British squadron on Lake Erie during the War of 1812, wrote to his superior...

Oliver Perry

Pogo Possum.

Well, obviously he meant that the enemy had surrendered their ships.

There was a very popular comic strip of the fifties, and sixties called Pogo. It was about Pogo Possum and a bunch of colorful, characters that lived in the Okefenokee Swamp. In one of the strips (I...