Lake Erie, one of the region's five Great Lakes, lies on the southeast coast of Michigan. Here's what to know.

British forces captured the ship near Fort Mackinac in the summer of 1812, and it sailed for the Royal Navy until being recaptured at the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813. Tulip Time ...

He was wounded in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813, and carried below, where he was killed instantly by a shot, which crashed through the cockpit. Conrad Laub, who was Sheriff of York ...

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 ...

On September 10, 1813, Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry sent this message ... British forces led by Commodore Robert Heriot Barclay in what is now known as the Battle of Lake Erie. The United States’ ...

The first was the Battle of Lake Erie. In that battle, the young American Navy decisively defeated the British, capturing their entire fleet, including the Commodore. This was the worst naval ...

The Forty-seventh Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie was celebrated at Cleveland ... which was designed to represent the contest of 1813. Among the interested spectators of these scenes ...

CLEVELAND, Sept. 10 -- The anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie was made a holiday for tlie city. A majority of the shops and factories closed and the city put on a gala dress for the occasion.

The Battle of Lake Erie was literally "a fight between ... Miller (Heritage Books); "The Lake Erie Campaign of 1813" by Walter P. Rybka (History Press); "A Signal Victory" by David Skaggs and ...

Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie on Sept. 10, 1813 ― a battle that sealed American victory. Exterior statues: In niches on the building’s corners were four statues recalling the ...

During the dinner, he was regaled with the story of the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. The table fittingly was "covered by an awning of the sails of the British vessels taken by justly famed Commodore ...

A fire aboard the 630-foot freighter ship "The Cuyahoga" on Lake Erie was fought by Ashtabula ... By 6 p.m., 350,000 gallons of water had been used to battle the blaze. He said a salvage company ...