His movements and designs are indicated in the following extract of his letter to Gen. ARMSTRONG, then Secretary of War, dated "Head-quarters, mouth of Portage River, on Lake Erie, 15th September ...

The Battle of Lake Erie, by Julian Oliver Davidson. Credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons. Devastated by volleys, the Lawrence ended up in ruins, with most of its crew killed; to make matters worse, ...

The mood must have been tense on Sept. 10, 1813, but it's festive today, as spectators set sail on Labor Day to see the Battle of Lake Erie re-enacted 200 years later.

The Battle of Lake Erie took place off the north shore on Sept. 10, 1813, according to the National Park Service. At dawn, a U.S. Navy lookout spotted six British vessels to the northwest of Put ...

But someone in fact had walked across the lake a century earlier, according to an historical reference uncovered by David Wallace, who posted about the feat on his Battle of Lake Erie Facebook ...

The Battle of Lake Erie took place off the north shore on Sept. 10, 1813, according to the National Park Service. At dawn, a U.S. Navy lookout spotted six British vessels to the northwest of Put ...

In the war of 1812, nine small ships faced a British squadron of six vessels in the Battle of Lake Erie. “Here’s the deal. Back in 1813, September 10th, Oliver Hazard Perry looked up and saw ...

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 ...

But the Niagara, a wooden reproduction of the ship that helped win the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812, won't be able to sail in this year's festival to be held Aug. 21-24.