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

American military heroics on the lake during the War of 1812 played a key role in shaping ... part of America following the conflict with the British. Lake Erie borders Michigan's Lower Peninsula ...

American military heroics on the lake during the War of 1812 played a key role in shaping ... part of America following the conflict with the British. Here are 10 things to know about Lake Erie.

It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812 ... a British war ship, where he was being held as a strategic prisoner. The next morning, he looked out and saw the flag ...

A second-rate episode in the third-rate War of 1812 was General Zebulon Montgomery ... was a canopy surmounted by a wooden figure of the British lion. Over the mace was what Commodore Chauncey ...

In September 1814, during the War of 1812, British naval forces launched a relentless bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. For 25 grueling hours, approximately 1,800 shells rained down on ...