In my column about my scooter ride around Lake Erie, I described Oliver Hazard Perry as “arguably our luckiest naval commander.” That description brought many responses – some questioning my ...

The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to be in 1912, when a 19-year-old North East man crossed the frozen lake. "It had never been done before," the Erie Times-News said ...

But someone in fact had walked across the lake a century earlier, according to an historical reference uncovered by David Wallace, who posted about the feat on his Battle of Lake Erie Facebook page.

With the U.S. Brig Niagara not available in the summer of 2024, we have the opportunity to learn about the two ships, the Scorpion, a schooner, and the U.S. Brig Caledonia, which arguably may have ...

Object Details Author Welsh, William Jeffrey 1953- Skaggs, David Curtis War on the Great Lakes Symposium (1988 : Windsor, Ont. and Put-in-Bay, Ohio) Notes Papers from the War on the Great Lakes ...

It highlighted the critical role naval power plays in shaping land operations. The United States learned this lesson in September 1813 at the Battle of Lake Erie and decisively a year later at Lake ...

The first was the Battle of Lake Erie. In that battle, the young American Navy decisively defeated the British, capturing their entire fleet, including the Commodore.

The preliminaries to the Battle of Lake Erie began in the bay enclosed by the arm of Presque Isle off Erie, Pa. There the larger ships of Perry's flotilla, the Lawrence and the Niagara, were built.