"Give him a barrel of cider and a pension of two thousand a year upon him, and my word," a Democratic newspaper foolishly scoffed: "... he is on the side of the fire a sit-in" sea coal, and study moral philosophy. "The Whigs, seizing this political misstep, of 1840 presented their candidate William Henry Harrison, to live as a simple frontier Indian fighter, in a log cabin and drinking cider, sip a sharp contrast to an aristocratic champagne Van Buren.
Harrison was in fact a member of the Virginia planter aristocracy. He was born in Berkeley in 1773. He studied classical philology and history at Hampden-Sydney College, began studying medicine in Richmond.
Suddenly, the same year, 1791, Harrison switched interests. He received a commission as an ensign in the First Infantry of the regular army and went to the northwest, where he spent much of his life.
In the campaign against the Indians, Harrison served as aide-de-camp to General "Mad Anthony" Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which opened the most settlement of the Ohio area. After discharge from the army in 1798 he became secretary of the Northwest Territory, was its first delegate to Congress and helped obtain legislation, the distribution of the partitioning of the Northwest Territories and Indiana. In 1801 he became governor of Indiana Territory, where 12 years.
His first task as governor was, could obtain title to Indian land as settlers in the desert ahead. When the Indians revenge, Harrison was responsible for defending the settlements.
The threat against settlers became serious in 1809. An eloquent and energetic leader, Tecumseh, with his religious brother, the Prophet, began to strengthen an Indian confederation to prevent further damage. In 1811 Harrison received permission to attack the Confederacy.
While Tecumseh was looking away more allies, Harrison led about a thousand men against the city of the Prophet. Suddenly, before dawn on 7 November, the Indians attacked his camp on Tippecanoe River. After heavy fighting, Harrison repulsed, but suffered 190 casualties.
The Battle of Tippecanoe, Harrison was the fame to rest disturbed, Tecumseh, the federal government, but nothing in the Indian raids. In the spring of 1812 they were again terrorizing the frontier.
In the War of 1812 Harrison won more military laurels when he commanded the army in the Northwest with the rank of Brigadier General. At the Battle of the Thames, north of Lake Erie, on 5th October 1813, he defeated the combined British and Indian troops and killed Tecumseh. The Indians scattered, never again to offer serious resistance in what was then called Northwest.
Harrison then returned to civilian life, the Whigs nominated, which requires a national hero of him as president in 1840. He won with a majority of less than 150,000, but swept the Electoral College, 234-60.
When he arrived in Washington can work in February 1841, Harrison, Daniel Webster, his inaugural speech, decorated with classical allusions. Webster obtained some deletions, and has a cheerful way he killed "had seventeen Roman governor as dead as melting, every single one of them."
Harrison was in fact a member of the Virginia planter aristocracy. He was born in Berkeley in 1773. He studied classical philology and history at Hampden-Sydney College, began studying medicine in Richmond.
Suddenly, the same year, 1791, Harrison switched interests. He received a commission as an ensign in the First Infantry of the regular army and went to the northwest, where he spent much of his life.
In the campaign against the Indians, Harrison served as aide-de-camp to General "Mad Anthony" Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which opened the most settlement of the Ohio area. After discharge from the army in 1798 he became secretary of the Northwest Territory, was its first delegate to Congress and helped obtain legislation, the distribution of the partitioning of the Northwest Territories and Indiana. In 1801 he became governor of Indiana Territory, where 12 years.
His first task as governor was, could obtain title to Indian land as settlers in the desert ahead. When the Indians revenge, Harrison was responsible for defending the settlements.
The threat against settlers became serious in 1809. An eloquent and energetic leader, Tecumseh, with his religious brother, the Prophet, began to strengthen an Indian confederation to prevent further damage. In 1811 Harrison received permission to attack the Confederacy.
While Tecumseh was looking away more allies, Harrison led about a thousand men against the city of the Prophet. Suddenly, before dawn on 7 November, the Indians attacked his camp on Tippecanoe River. After heavy fighting, Harrison repulsed, but suffered 190 casualties.
The Battle of Tippecanoe, Harrison was the fame to rest disturbed, Tecumseh, the federal government, but nothing in the Indian raids. In the spring of 1812 they were again terrorizing the frontier.
In the War of 1812 Harrison won more military laurels when he commanded the army in the Northwest with the rank of Brigadier General. At the Battle of the Thames, north of Lake Erie, on 5th October 1813, he defeated the combined British and Indian troops and killed Tecumseh. The Indians scattered, never again to offer serious resistance in what was then called Northwest.
Harrison then returned to civilian life, the Whigs nominated, which requires a national hero of him as president in 1840. He won with a majority of less than 150,000, but swept the Electoral College, 234-60.
When he arrived in Washington can work in February 1841, Harrison, Daniel Webster, his inaugural speech, decorated with classical allusions. Webster obtained some deletions, and has a cheerful way he killed "had seventeen Roman governor as dead as melting, every single one of them."
Webster had reason to rejoice, for while Harrison was nationalistic in his vision that he, in his inaugural speech, he stressed that to obey by the people as expressed through Congress.
But before he is in office 1 month, he caught a cold which developed into pneumonia. On 4 April 1841, he died - the first president to die in office - and with him died the Whig program.
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