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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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More Jungle Bungles – The Siege of Fort Erie, Part 1 Summer, 1814 Fort Erie, ONT
Two of the most desperate, sensational battles I’ve heard of in history took place at Fort Erie during the late ... these events and the 1812 war as a whole are largely forgotten except by ...
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Dispatches from the War of 1812 | Guerrillas in a Thrilla | The Battle of Chippawa, Part 2
By the 1812 war they were firmly on the side ... film has anything to surpass what was to come, this war-within-the-war outside Fort Erie. All Native Americans were renowned for knowing their ...
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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 ...