The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7,1811,in Battle Ground,Indiana,between American forces led by then Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa,leaders of a confederacy of various tribes who opposed European-American settlement of the American frontier. As tensions and violence increased,Governor Harrison marched with an army of about 1,000 men to attack the confederacy's headquarters at Prophetstown,near the confluence of the Tippecanoe River and the Wabash River.
Breckinridge County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census,the population was 20,432. Its county seat is Hardinsburg,Kentucky. The county was named for John Breckinridge (1760–1806),a Kentucky Attorney General,state legislator,United States Senator,and United States Attorney General. It was the 38th Kentucky county in order of formation. Breckinridge County is now a wet county,following a local option election on January 29,2013,but it had been a dry county for the previous 105 years.
Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator,Tecumseh traveled widely,forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in the War of 1812,he became an iconic folk hero in American,Indigenous,and Canadian popular history.
The Battle of the Thames,also known as the Battle of Moraviantown,was an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies. It took place on October 5,1813,in Upper Canada,near Chatham. The British lost control of Southwestern Ontario as a result of the battle;Tecumseh was killed,and his confederacy largely fell apart.
The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. In the 17th century they lived in Pennsylvania,and in the 18th century they were in Pennsylvania,Ohio,and Indiana with some bands in Kentucky and Alabama. By the 19th century,they were forcibly removed to Missouri,Kansas,Texas,and ultimately Indian Territory,which became Oklahoma under the 1830 Indian Removal Act.
James Guthrie was an American lawyer,plantation owner,railroad president and Democratic Party politician in Kentucky. He served as the 21st United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin Pierce,and then became president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. After serving,part-time,in both houses of the Kentucky legislature as well as Louisville's City Council before the American Civil War,Guthrie became one of Kentucky's United States Senators in 1865. Guthrie strongly opposed proposals for Kentucky to secede from the United States and attended the Peace Conference of 1861. Although he sided with the Union during the Civil War,he declined President Abraham Lincoln's offer to become the Secretary of War. As one of Kentucky's Senators after the war,Guthrie supported President Andrew Johnson and opposed Congressional Reconstruction.
Benjamin Logan was an American pioneer,soldier,and politician from Virginia,then Shelby County,Kentucky. As colonel of the Kentucky County,Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War,he was second-in-command of all the trans-Appalachian Virginia. He became a politician and help secure statehood for Kentucky. His brother,John Logan,who at times served under him in the militia and replaced him as delegate,became the first state treasurer of Kentucky.
Simon Kenton was a United States frontiersman and soldier in West Virginia,Kentucky and Ohio. He was a friend of Daniel Boone,Simon Girty,Spencer Records,Thomas S. Hinde,Thomas Hinde,and Isaac Shelby. He served the United States in the Revolution,the Northwest Indian War and the War of 1812. Surviving multiple gauntlets and ritual torture,in 1778 he was adopted into the Shawnee people. He married twice and had a total of ten children.
Stephen Trigg was an American pioneer and soldier from Virginia. He was killed ten months after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in one of the last battles of the American Revolution while leading the Lincoln County militia at the Battle of Blue Licks,Kentucky.
William Whitley,was an American pioneer in what became Kentucky,in the colonial and early Federal period. Born in Virginia,he was the son of Scottish Presbyterian immigrants from northern Ireland,then the Ulster Plantation. He was important to the early settlement of the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky,where he moved with his family from Virginia. He served with the Kentucky militia during the Northwest Indian War.
Moluntha,also spelled Molunthe,Melonthe,and Malunthy,was a prominent civil chief of the Shawnee people in the 1780s. He was murdered by a Kentucky soldier at the outset of the Northwest Indian War (1785–1795).
Thomas Allin was a soldier and surveyor who became an early settler and political leader in Kentucky. He served in the Revolutionary War,first in the North Carolina militia and then as part of general Nathanael Greene's campaign.
Paschal Hickman was an American military officer who was killed in the Massacre of the River Raisin,an important event in the War of 1812. Hickman County,Kentucky is named for him.
Captain Logan,also known as Spemica Lawba,James Logan,or simply Logan,was a Shawnee warrior who lived in what became the U.S. state of Ohio. Although he opposed the expansion of the United States into Shawnee lands,after the Treaty of Greenville (1795),he was one of many Shawnees who sought to preserve Shawnee independence by maintaining peaceful relations with the United States. When the War of 1812 came to Ohio,Logan served as a scout and guide for the Americans. After he was killed in a skirmish with British-allied Natives,he was buried with military honors by the Americans,becoming "the foremost Indian hero on the American side of that conflict."
During the War of 1812,Kentucky supplied numerous troops and supplies to the war effort. Because Kentucky did not have to commit manpower to defending fortifications,most Kentucky troops campaigned actively against the enemy. This led to Kentucky seeing more battle casualties than all other states combined.
John Logan was a military officer,farmer and politician from Virginia who became a pioneer in and helped found the state of Kentucky. He served under his brother,Benjamin during Lord Dunmore's War in 1774,then both moved to what was then called Kentucky County,Virginia. Logan took part in several expeditions against the Shawnee,including some led by Daniel Boone,John Bowman,and George Rogers Clark. After Kentucky County was split into three counties,Logan and his brother at various times represented Lincoln in the Virginia House of Delegates,and John Logan also represented that county at the Virginia Ratification Convention in 1788.
Samuel South was born circa 1770 in Maryland. He was the second son of John South. The South family moved to Boonesborough when Samuel was still young. At the time,Boonesborough was in Fayette County in the District of Kentucky,a part of the state of Virginia. John South was in command of the militia at Boonesborough.
Captain William Hardin was an American soldier,farmer,and founder of Hardinsburg,Kentucky. Known as "Big Bill" or "Indian Bill",he was related to Colonel John Hardin,for whom Hardin County,Kentucky was named.
William Ward was the founder of Urbana,Ohio,and one of the original settlers in Kentucky's Mason County and Ohio's Mad River Valley.
Captain James Ward was an early American settler,Indian fighter and legislator of Kentucky whose adventures featured heavily in the stories of the western frontier. He was a pall bearer at Daniel Boone's re-interment in 1845.
