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David Curtis Skaggs - William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812 - 9781421405469 - V9781421405469
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William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812

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Description for William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812 Hardback. 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. Series: Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14, 1 black & white illustrations, 12 maps, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 227 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812
Condition
New
Weight
566g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405469
SKU
V9781421405469
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About David Curtis Skaggs
David Curtis Skaggs is a professor emeritus of history at Bowling Green State University. He is author or coauthor of twelve books, including Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy; Thomas Macdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy; and A Signal to Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1814.

Reviews for William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812
Dave Skaggs, a lifelong student of the politics and wars of the Northwest Territory, has rescued Harrison from relative obscurity in this biography, researched in depth and written with grace... A worthy contribution to Donald Hickey's War of 1812 Bicentennial publication project, William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812 reflects ... Read more

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