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the search is on for the sunken remains of two of the ships that fought in the War of 1812. Researchers are digging the depths of Lake Ontario for the remains of a frigate called the Mohawk and an ...
on the Niagara River at the mouth of Lake Ontario, served as the headquarters for the British army during the War of 1812. The fort was captured by Americans in May 1813 in what was the first ...
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 ...
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 ...