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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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Lake Erie along Pennsylvania's shoreline on its way to becoming national marine sanctuary
President Joe Biden's administration took the first step Thursday toward designating the Pennsylvania-owned section of Lake Erie as the ... before the Civil War. The area possibly includes scores ...
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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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ERIE INDIANS
In 1654 the Iroquois lashed out to the west, somewhere toward the south shore of Lake Erie. The Jesuit Relation of 1656 gives a vivid account of this short war, during which the Seneca inflicted ...
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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 ...