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 ...

The War of 1812 was the first war the new United ... 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 Northwest.

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 ...

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The year 1813 was a defining one for all sides in the War of 1812. Victory and defeat ... squadron defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie, and a short time later, Newark (present-day ...

Holland Landing founded by necessity, as British used ancient trade route to get to Barrie and then Willow Creek, which ...

Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial was established to honor Oliver Hazard Perry's victory over a British fleet in the War ... 1812. By defeating the British—the first time an entire ...

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 ...