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 ...

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 ...

A Black man who served in the Maryland State Militia during the War of 1812 and was long denied the ... the Washington County-based Tilghman’s Cavalry Regiment, took part in the Battle of ...

A Black War ... County in September 1814. That family legacy sparked Louis Giles’ interest in the war. It also allowed him to become a member of the Maryland chapter of the War of 1812 society ...

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 ...