The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . their unwillingness to serve under any-body but Harrison, whose vigor at Tippecanoe hadwon him the favor of the Western country. The gov-ernment could not do otherwise than yield to thewishes of the Kentuckians. Winchester was put in command of a part of Har- The defeat on therisons army, but the same ill-luck attended him thatbefell the other Revolutionary officers who were broughtforth in old age to command in this war. Winchesterwas defeated on the river Raisin, in Michigan, in Janu-ary, 1813. He surrendered hi
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . their unwillingness to serve under any-body but Harrison, whose vigor at Tippecanoe hadwon him the favor of the Western country. The gov-ernment could not do otherwise than yield to thewishes of the Kentuckians. Winchester was put in command of a part of Har- The defeat on therisons army, but the same ill-luck attended him thatbefell the other Revolutionary officers who were broughtforth in old age to command in this war. Winchesterwas defeated on the river Raisin, in Michigan, in Janu-ary, 1813. He surrendered his men to the British gen-eral. Proctor, a very brutal man, who, to his eternalinfamy, left the wounded Americans to be massacredand plundered by the Indians of his army. The Ameri-cans were roused to revenge, and the war-cry of theenraged Western troops became, Remember the riverRaisin! In the spring of 1813, General Proctor, with a great siege of Fort Meigs by Proctor force of English soldiers and Indians under Tecumseh, and Tecumseh, 1813. 256 HISTORY OF THE UNITED Croghans gallantdefense of FortStephenson, 1813.
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