This guy here with another episode of the History Unplugged Podcast.

The conquest of Indian land in the Eastern United States happened throughout decades of

U.S. government's military victories,

along with questionable treaties and violence.

This conflict between two civilizations came to head in 1813

in a little known but consequential struggle between two extraordinary leaders.

William Henry Harrison was born to a prominent Virginia family,

the son of a signing of the Declaration of Independence.

He journeyed West, became governor of the vast Indiana territory,

and sought statehood by attracting settlers and imposing one-sided treaties.

To Comse, by all accounts one of the 19th century's greatest leaders, belonged to an honored line

of Shawnee warriors and chiefs.

His father was killed by fighting the Virginians flooding into Kentucky, who

extracted a promise from his son to never give in to American settlers.

To come to travel from Minnesota to Florida and west of the Great Plains, convincing

far-flung tribes to join a great Confederacy and face down their common enemy.

Here to stop U.S. expansion, the British Backed the Comps's Confederacy in a series of battles during the

forgotten Western Front of the War of 1812, it would determine control over the North American

continent. Today's guest is Peter Stark, and he discusses these battles and diplomacy,

and his new book galloped toward the sun, Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's struggle for the destiny of a nation.

Hope we enjoy this discussion.

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