Essentials of United States history . Jamks WjnTfoMij Riley. INDIANAS WAR RECORD 39 CHAPTER IX INDIANAS WAR RECORD Since Indiana assumed her present limits she has participatedin four national wars: the Second War with England, or theWar of 1812-1815; the Mexican War, 1846-1848; the CivilWar, 1861-1865; and the Spanish-American War, 1898-1899. The Battle of Tippecanoe. — As a prelude to the War of 1812,Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, undertook to form an Indian con-. Fro:n a painting The Battle of Tippecanoe. federacy for exterminating the whites on the frontier. Hisbrother, called the Prophet, inc
Essentials of United States history . Jamks WjnTfoMij Riley. INDIANAS WAR RECORD 39 CHAPTER IX INDIANAS WAR RECORD Since Indiana assumed her present limits she has participatedin four national wars: the Second War with England, or theWar of 1812-1815; the Mexican War, 1846-1848; the CivilWar, 1861-1865; and the Spanish-American War, 1898-1899. The Battle of Tippecanoe. — As a prelude to the War of 1812,Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, undertook to form an Indian con-. Fro:n a painting The Battle of Tippecanoe. federacy for exterminating the whites on the frontier. Hisbrother, called the Prophet, incited the Indians on theWabash to make an attack. General Harrison took promptaction, and in the summer of 1811, with eight hundred troops,moved up the river from Vincennes. Two miles above TerreHaute, as we have seen, he built Fort Harrison. LeavingCaptain Zachary Taylor in command there, he pushed on up to 40 A SHORT SKETCH OF THE IIISTORV OF INDIANA the Tippecanoe River, where, on the night of November 6, 1811,the Indians made an attack on the camp. At dayhght Harrisonsmounted men drove them from the field, pursued them to theirvillage, the Prophets town, and destroyed it. This was themost noted battle ever fought in Indiana. The War of 1812. — Early in the War of 1812 most of theMichigan frontier fell into the hands of the British. In 1813General Harrison, with an army composed largely of Indianatroops, cooperated with Commodore Perry on Lake Erie;
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