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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 in Michigan would decide who controlled the Northwestern Frontier. ... PERRY ENGAGED THE BRITISH IN WHAT WOULD BECOME A DECISIVE EVENT OF THE WAR, THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE.
At this time, 211 years ago, our area was on the frontlines of the United States’ second conflict with Great Britain, which would come to be known as the War ...
This War of 1812 Veteran Saw the Battle of Gettysburg from His Porch – Then Joined It Laugh all you want, whippersnappers. John Burns will show you how it's done.
A Black War of 1812 veteran who has been denied a traditional military honor will be memorialized in a Frederick cemetery this weekend, Skip to content All Sections ...
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Sept. 20, 2023) -- Trading their rucksacks and combat boots for paddles and life vests, members of the 10th Mountain Division (LI) went back over two centuries in North Country ...
Who Really Won the War of 1812? 🇺🇸🇨🇦 A war with no clear victor — or was there? The answer might surprise you… and rewrite what you thought you knew about history.
A walking tour of Erie's New Jerusalem neighborhood, a rare look at Blasco Library's vault and programs on Revolutionary War espionage, an 1812 African-American seaman and notorious Erie murders ...
She is in Moscow awaiting her fiancee’s return from the war when she finds a new romance in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” performed Sept. 5-Oct. 27 at Writers Theatre.
Port Covington’s name celebrates a fort that participated in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812. While not nearly as famous as its sister, Fort McHenry, that name has been oblite… ...
A 1912 article in the Erie Times-News reported the first walk across a frozen Lake Erie. But the first crossing actually seems to have been a century earlier. Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key ...