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 ...

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, ...

Explore the depths of Lake Erie's waters, unveiling the hidden stories ... right in the middle of the Civil War. The ship was built. She has two engines and she has two propellers, and she reached ...

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 ...

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 ...