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The War Hawks
In November 1811, while Tecumseh was absent, his brother led the shawnee in an attack on harrison and his troops. Harrison struck back. On the banks of the Tippecanoe river, he burned the shawnee capital known as Prophetstown to the ground. Harrison's victory at what came to be know as the Battle of Tippecanoe made him a nation hero, but his troops suffered heavy losses. -
The war in Canada
Declaring war was one thing but fighting it was another. The american military was unprepared for war. detriot was captured by the British shortly after war was declared and the americans suffered numerous set backs,including a failed attempt to take montreal. -
Tecumsh's Confederacy
eanother source of trouble appeared in 1809, when general William Henry Harrison, the governor of the Indiana Territory, invited several Native American chiefs to Fort Wayne,Indiana, and persuaded them to sighn away three million acres of tribal land to the U,S, government. -
The war at sea
The war was one an opportunity for the relatively young U.S. navy to test its ability. Badly outnumbered with only 16 ships, the united states,and aided by its three 44-gun frigates, or warships, the president, the united states, and the constituion. know for there speed and ability to sail close to enemy vessels and open fire, these ships sailed alone. each schored victories against british vessels. -
The battle of new orleans
At the same time, a general from tennesse named Andrew Jackson was winning a series of battles that gained him national fame. After a six month' campaign involving four battles, jacson defeated native americans of the creek tribe at te battle of horseshoe bend in march of 1814. -
British burn the white house
The birtish were raiding and burning towns all along the atlantic coast. the redcoats brushed aside some hastily assembled american troops and entered washington D.C. -
The treaty of ghent
Unknown to jackson, british and american diplomats had already signed a peace agreement, The treaty of Ghent, signed on christmas eve 1814, declared an armistice, or end to the fighting.
