on the Niagara River at the mouth of Lake Ontario, served as the headquarters for the British army during the War of 1812. The fort was captured by Americans in May 1813 in what was the first ...

During the War of 1812, Sackets Harbor, New York was one of the key areas of naval and military activity. Because of this, there have been several underwater shipwreck discoveries in Lake Ontario, ...

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 second-rate episode in the third-rate War of 1812 was General Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s expedition with 2,500 men in April 1813, across Lake Ontario against York (now Toronto), a village ...

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 ...

During the War of 1812, for instance ... fundamentally shaped the emerging political and economic systems around Lake Ontario. Content continues below Heavier ice cover on Lake Ontario actually ...

FORT HUNTINGTON, located on a site west of the county courthouse at Ontario and Lakeside, was a fortress and supply depot of the Army of the Northwest during the War of 1812, built at the ... Perry ...