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The Year Canada Didn’t Have a Summer
The fascinating story of how a natural disaster on the other side of the world made the summer of 1816 Canada’s coldest on ...
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, ...
At this time, 211 years ago, our area was on the frontlines of the United States’ second conflict with Great Britain, which would come to be known as the War of 1812 ... on-the-Lake, by American ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...