William Henry Harrison And The Conquest Of The Ohio Country Frontier Fighting In The War Of 1812
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781421405469
Description: 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... -- Amazon.com.