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 ...

It’s 19 degrees with a brisk wind blowing off Lake Erie as the men of Lacroix Company ... of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ground, hundreds of U.S. soldiers ...

The War of 1812, often overlooked in American history ... such as Oliver Hazard Perry's triumph on Lake Erie and Andrew Jackson's defense of New Orleans, bolstered American morale.

An earlier frozen lake excursion?: First walks across frozen Lake Erie may have been for reconnaissance during War of 1812 None of the men who walked across the lake were eager to do it again.

Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key figures in the War of 1812, apparently crossed the frozen lake in the winter of 1813-14. The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to ...