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 ...

The War of 1812 was the first war the new United States ... In 1813, he was given command of a fleet of ships that was being built on Lake Erie. His task: break the British stranglehold in the ...

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 ...

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 ...