Author: Indiana. GovernorPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Governors Messages and Letters
Author: Indiana. GovernorGovernors Messages and Letters: Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison (concluded) John Gibson, Thomas Posey. 1812-1816
Author: Indiana. GovernorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
William Henry Harrison
Author: Kenneth R. StevensPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313371040
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Although William Henry Harrison died a month after becoming President, he lived a full and accomplished life before assuming the presidency. As a member of Congress, he sponsored legislation dividing the Northwest Territory. As governor of the Indiana Territory, he led a movement to suspend the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance and earned a reputation for acquiring large land cessions from the Indian tribes, winning the affection of white settlers and the animosity of Native Americans. Serving as brigadier general during the War of 1812, he then served in the Ohio legislature and the U.S. Senate, and was named minister to Colombia. This bibliography provides a guide to the literature on his extensive career.
Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison Volume 1
Author: Harrison, William HenryPublisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623768691
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Messages and letters of William Henry Harrison Volume 2
Author: Harrison, William HenryPublisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623768705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Writings on American History
Author: William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country
Author: David Curtis SkaggsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421405466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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. Skaggs focuses on Harrison’s early life and military exploits, especially his role on Major General Anthony Wayne's staff during the Fallen Timbers campaign and Harrison's leadership of the Tippecanoe campaign. He explores how the military and its leaders performed in the age of a small standing army and part-time, Cincinnatus-like forces. This richly detailed work reveals how the military and Indian policies of the early republic played out on the frontier, freshly revisiting a subject central to American history: how white settlers tamed the west—and at what cost.
William Henry Harrison
Author: Steven OtfinoskiPublisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516227610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
William Henry Harrison may have been the most unlucky president. Nominated by the Whig Party because he had no enemies in Washington, he was elected after a novel, riotous campaign. Portrayed as a champion of the common man. Harrison was symbolized by the simple log cabin (in which he supposedly lived) and hard cider (which he supposedly drank). The campaign's catchy slogan. "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" reminded voters of Harrison's leadership in a battle with the Indians at Tippecanoe in the Indiana territory nineteen years earlier and named his vicepresidential running mate. Three weeks after his inauguration he became ill, and he died after serving as president for only thirty days. Book jacket.
Documents of American Indian Diplomacy
Author: Vine DeloriaPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806131187
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
Reproduced in this two-volume set are hundreds of treaties and agreements made by Indian nations--with, among others, the Continental Congress; England, Spain, and other foreign countries; the ephemeral Republic of Texas and the Confederate States; railroad companies seeking rights-of-way across Indian land; and other Indian nations. Many were made with the United States but either remained unratified by Congress or were rejected by the Indians themselves after the Senate amended them unacceptably. Many others are "agreements" made after the official--but hardly de facto--end of U.S. treaty making in 1871. With the help of chapter introductions that concisely set each type of treaty in its historical and political context, these documents effectively trace the evolution of American Indian diplomacy in the United States.