Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . which instantly let flywith a broadside, followed by severalothers, that killed eleven men andwounded twenty-one. The incidentadded to the angry excitement inlioth countries and brought warnearer. BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE. The i)opu]ation of the UnitedStates in 1810 was 7,239,881, some-what more than a third of GreatBritain and Ireland. Our growth in the West was rapid. Tliere was a con-tinual stream of emigration thither, and th
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . which instantly let flywith a broadside, followed by severalothers, that killed eleven men andwounded twenty-one. The incidentadded to the angry excitement inlioth countries and brought warnearer. BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE. The i)opu]ation of the UnitedStates in 1810 was 7,239,881, some-what more than a third of GreatBritain and Ireland. Our growth in the West was rapid. Tliere was a con-tinual stream of emigration thither, and the Indians, seeing how rapidly theirhuntino- grounds were passing from them, combined to resist the invasion. Thiswas done°under the leadership of Tecumseh, the ablest Indian that ever this course he was incited by British agents, who, knowing that war wascoming, were anxii)us to do the Americans all the harm they could. The out-ra<ves of the red men became so numerous that General William Henry Harri-son, governor of the Northwest Territory, gathered a large force and marchedasjainst them. Near the present city of Uafayette, while encamped at a place. JAMES MADISON. (1751-18(;.) Two terms, lRfl9-1817. ENGLANDS OVERWHELMING NAVAL STRENGTH. 183 called Tippecanoe, he was furiously assailed (Nov. 7, 1811) by the was absent at the time, and the battle was brought on, against hisorders, by his brother, called The Prophet. The loss was severe on bothsides, but the Indians were decisively defeated. Bv this time the American people were clamoi-ing more loudly tlian everfor war with Enoland. The congressional candidates were obliged to declarewhether they favored or opposed the war. Those who opposed it were beaten atthe polls. Congress, which had been making preparations for some time forhostilities, declared war against England, June 18, 1812. It is a regrettable factthat we could not know that almost on the same day England suspended theOrders of Council
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