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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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AN INCIDENT OF WAR TIMES; Capture of the Lake Erie Steamer Philo Parsons by Rebels. TOLD BY A PARTICIPANT IS THE AFFAIR Unsuccessful Attempt to Free Several Thousand ...
To look up from a peaceful cigar and behold a sixteen-inch revolver pointed at one's head, to be metamorphosed from a tourist into a prisoner of war in the twinkling of an eye, to argue vainly ...
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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 ...