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First walks across frozen Lake Erie may have been for reconnaissance during War of 1812
who posted about the feat on his Battle of Lake Erie Facebook page. Daniel Dobbins and Commodore Jesse Elliott walked across the lake in the winter of 1813-14, according to Dobbins' recollections ...
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The Battle of Lake Erie
The War of 1812 was the first war the new United States ... In 1813, he was given command of a fleet of ships that was being built on Lake Erie. His task: break the British stranglehold in the ...
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The War of 1812’s Forgotten Battle Cry
It’s 19 degrees with a brisk wind blowing off Lake ... the War of 1812. On this ground, hundreds of U.S. soldiers died in a defeat so stinging that it spawned a vengeful American battle cry ...
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The FDA fired me and broke Erie's golden rule: They gave up the ship | Opinion
in honor of Oliver Hazard Perry's flag in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. Here, Erie native Adam Ghering, who was fired from the FDA amid the DOGE cuts, writes that the federal ...
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To Mark Japan's Surrender at the End of World War II, This Navy Officer Raced Halfway Around the World With a Historic Flag in Tow
who famously defeated the British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812—but that was about to change. In July 1853, the American naval commander was on the cusp of ...