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William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison

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In 1811, Harrison earned the nickname "Old Tippecanoe" after leading a brutal, but successful, attack against Tecumseh's Shawnee tribe at Tippecanoe Creek in what is now Indiana.

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