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Free Download David Curtis Skaggs, "William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812 "
English | ISBN: 1421405466 | 2014 | 328 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Who was William Henry Harrison, and what does his military career reveal about the War of 1812 in the Great Lakes Region?
In his study of William Henry Harrison, David Curtis Skaggs sheds light on the role of citizen-soldiers in taming the wilderness of the old Northwest. Perhaps best known for the Whig slogan in 1840―"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"―Harrison used his efforts to pacify Native Americans and defeat the British in the War of 1812 to promote a political career that eventually elevated him to the presidency.
Harrison exemplified the citizen-soldier on the Ohio frontier in the days when white men settled on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains at their peril. Punctuated by almost continuous small-scale operations and sporadic larger engagements, warfare in this region revolved around a shifting system of alliances among various Indian tribes, government figures, white settlers, and business leaders.
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