But the first crossing actually seems to have been a century earlier. Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key figures in the War of 1812, apparently crossed the frozen lake in the winter of 1813-14.

The Revolutionary War hero visited Erie in 1825 as part of a 13-month, 6,000-mile tour of the young United States. A June 3 dinner will commemorate the Marquis de Lafayette's visit 200 years ago.

The War of 1812, more accurately described as the war of 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815, was referred to by at least one chronicler as the war that few people ...

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