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, 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.

In September 1814 on the waters of Lake Champlain, American sailors won an improbable victory that not only turned back the largest British invasion force of the War of 1812 but also helped secure ...

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

A notable event for Chautauqua County during the War of 1812 is of the burning of Buffalo. What is now the city of Buffalo began as a settlement known as Black Rock, one of the first settlements on ...

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 ...