General Harrison and the Battle of Tippecanoe

In 1811, Indiana was a territory and not a state. Tecumseh, an attractive Indian leader, led tribal alliance in the central and northern Indiana and opposed further expansion of the United States. Governor William Henry Harrison aims to acquire land and acquire state rights for settlers. These competing interests led to the autumn contradiction of 1811, which eventually led to the destruction of the Tippecanoe fight and the destruction of the Indian town and New Indian League center - Prophetstown. Harrison's strategic goals and actions contradict President Madison, the intention of his commander.

In 1811, when Tecumseh was south, a group of locals led by Tenskwatawa attacked the US forces in the battle of Tippecanoe. The fight was a draw, but the American generals William Henry Harrison announced a victory, and launched his troops, and burned the home Prophetstown of Tecumseh above the Indiana territory. After Tippecanoe's failure, Tecumseh recognized the importance of the British Union. During the war, Indian countries and the United States conducted more than 40 battles and small conflicts. In southern Canada, parents British and parent Americans. The Iroquois were fighting each other, but in most fights the local troops were fighting side by side with the British army. They were the key to success in the UK Detroit and Queenstown; in the Beaver War local fighters had no help from their British counterparts, defeated the Americans and captured 500 prisoners It was.

William Henry Harrison - Harrison died in the first month after service. For the past 30 years as president, Harrison served as Governor of the Indiana Territory, where he led Tecumseh in the battle of Tiepecanoe and won his nickname "Old Tieche Canoe." This nickname eventually helped him win the presidential election.

Although the two sides suffered nearly the same defeat, the battle of Tiepecanoe was widely regarded as a victory of the United States and helped establish William Harrison's reputation nationwide. He was later called "Old Tippecanoe" or "Old Tip". This fight refers to the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tylor Too" of success after Harrison's presidential election and refers to that battle and John Taylor, partner of his vice presidential election campaign. In August 1812, a few weeks after the outbreak of the war in 1812 in the UK, William Harrison was promoted to the brigadier status of the US Army and became commander of all the US military in the northwest. At that time, Lake Erie and Detroit were under British rule. Harrison made his army stationed in Messi, where they experienced two sieges by British and Indians.