FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Now to “Tippecanoe” - William Henry Harrison. Prior to becoming the ninth president Harrison joined the army and was stationed in the Northwest territories in 1791.

General William Henry Harrison led a stunning victory over British forces and their Native allies in the Battle of the Thames on this day in history, Oct. 5, 1813. The swift American victory in the ...

Born: February 9, 1773, in Berkeley, Virginia... William Harrison, a frontier army general whose fame (and nickname) was assured at the battle of Tippecanoe, spent only 32 days in office before dying.

NORTH BEND, Ohio – You might consider the parade here earlier this month the equivalent of a participation trophy. Of the 45 presidents the nation will honor Monday, none served as short a term as ...

Liz Truss walked away from No. 10 Downing St. as the shortest-serving prime minister in British history. We’re not a parliamentary system, so loss-of-confidence votes and snap elections aren’t the ...

NORTH BEND, Ohio – You might consider the parade here earlier this month the equivalent of a participation trophy. Of the 45 presidents the nation will honor Monday, none served as short a term as ...

Was John Tyler really president after pneumonia claimed the life of William Henry Harrison? In 1841, the country wasn’t sure. On April 5, 1841, two men on horseback galloped up at sunrise to Vice ...

Every American president has issued pardons — except for two. Here’s what to know about William Henry Harrison and James Garfield. Photo from Benjamin Ashton, UnSplash In pardoning his son Hunter, ...

“We are happy to announce that the health of the president is decidedly better, the disease with which he was afflicted having assumed a more favorable aspect,” a Washington newspaper reported. The ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio sheriff wearing white gloves displayed a sword wielded in the American Revolution and by a future U.S. president in the War of 1812, and pledged Wednesday an exhaustive ...

Barely a footnote as chief executive because he died after a month in office, Harrison (1773–1841) receives a surprisingly entertaining biography from Collins (When Everything Changed: The Amazing ...