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General William Henry Harrison led Americans to victory in the Battle of the Thames on this day in history, Oct. 5, 1813, routing the British and Native forces led by Shawnee chief Tecumseh.
William Henry Harrison's bid for the presidency in 1840 changed how campaigns were run.
The son of Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, William Henry Harrison was raised on a Virginia plantation. Growing up, Harrison had no thought of becoming president. He ...
And they continue. Tecumseh literature is now more voluminous than that devoted to William Henry Harrison or Richard Johnson, and nearly all of it is laudatory.
Shawnee chief Tecumseh and American governor of the Indiana Territory William Henry Harrison face off during negotiations over the sale of tribal lands on July 27, 1811. Months later, Harrison's ...
OPINION Today’s voters would be wise to heed the critics of ‘Old Tippecanoe’ No one as old as William Henry Harrison had ever run for president. Even his supporters knew that was a problem.
One was Tecumseh, a Shawnee warrior and chief who’d rallied a confederacy of tribes braced against American settlers’ expansion westward. The other was William Henry Harrison, then-governor of ...
In this intriguing study, historian Stark (Young Washington) examines the conflict between two major figures of the America’s “western destiny,” William Henry Harrison and Shawnee chief ...
It's been more than 200 years since Ohioans witnessed a total solar eclipse. What was life like in 1806 on the Ohio frontier?
Did delivering a two-hour long inauguration speech in the cold—and without a coat—really have anything to do with William Henry Harrison’s death?
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