It’s 19 degrees with a brisk wind blowing off Lake Erie as the men of Lacroix ... Indeed, the U.S. war plan began with a land invasion—of Canada. By occupying land north of the border, Hawks ...

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 ...

Toy Soldiers, a monument to the War of 1812 in Toronto, depicts a soldier successfully defending Canada from U.S. invasion, overlaid here atop a vintage map. Foreign Policy illustration/Getty ...

“Canada never ... at Detroit on the western edge of Lake Erie. But even this would not be the last invasion by Americans. During the US civil war (1861-1865) there was talk of forceable American ...

Two months ago, the idea that the United States posed a military threat to Canada was unthinkable ... especially amid an unpredictable trade war. But an American invasion is highly unlikely.

The War of 1812 ended in a British American draw, no less so than on the northern front. The Americans again believed Canada’s British ... Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie.

The Americans launched a three-pronged invasion—across the Detroit River and the Niagara River, and at Lake Champlain ... of the war was widely commemorated in Canada through museum exhibits ...