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First walks across frozen Lake Erie may have been for reconnaissance during War of 1812
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 ...
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The Battle of Lake Erie
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 ...
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The Battle of Lake Erie: The Naval Clash Between Americans and British That Prevented an Invasion From Canada
In other words, Lake Erie and the Niagara Peninsula came under the control of the victors, eliminating the possibility of an enemy invasion from that point and ensuring the safety of Ohio, ...
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The War of 1812’s Forgotten Battle Cry
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 ...
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AN INCIDENT OF WAR TIMES; Capture of the Lake Erie Steamer Philo Parsons by Rebels. TOLD BY A PARTICIPANT IS THE AFFAIR Unsuccessful Attempt to Free Several Thousand ...
To look up from a peaceful cigar and behold a sixteen-inch revolver pointed at one's head, to be metamorphosed from a tourist into a prisoner of war in the twinkling of an eye, to argue vainly ...
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THE WAR IN FLORIDA.; The Destruction of the Marsh Fishery. Wisconsin. The Great Gale on Lake Erie Great Destruction of Property. Steamers Outward Bound.
The Detroit Free Press estimates that fifty vessels, worth, with their cargoes, a million of a dollars, were destroyed in the recent gale on Lake Erie. SANDY HOOK, Saturday, Nov. 19. The steamers ...
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ERIE INDIANS
In 1654 the Iroquois lashed out to the west, somewhere toward the south shore of Lake Erie. The Jesuit Relation of 1656 gives a vivid account of this short war, during which the Seneca inflicted ...
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First walks across frozen Lake Erie may have been for reconnaissance during War of 1812
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 ...