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The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811, between U.S.
forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison and warriors of a Native
American confederation led by Shawnee brothers Tenskwatawa (pictured)
and Tecumseh. While Tecumseh was away recruiting allies, Harrison
marched with about 1,000 men to disperse the confederation's
headquarters at Prophetstown, near the confluence of the Tippecanoe and
Wabash Rivers in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana. The outnumbered
warriors from Prophetstown launched a surprise attack, but Harrison's
army prevailed. Public opinion in the United States blamed the conflict
on British interference, a suspicion that served as a catalyst to the
War of 1812. When the U.S. declared war on Great Britain in June 1812,
Tecumseh's confederacy, now allied with the British, initiated its own
war against the United States. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1665:
The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper,
was first published as the Oxford Gazette.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Gazette>
1811:
American forces led by Indiana Territory Governor William Henry
Harrison defeated the forces of Shawnee leader Tecumseh's growing
American Indian confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe near
present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe>
1885:
Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first
transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with financier and
politician Sir Donald Smith driving in the "last spike" in
Craigellachie, British Columbia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Spike_%28Canadian_Pacific_Railway%29>
1917:
Vladimir Lenin led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional
Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution,
the second phase of the overall Russian Revolution.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution>
1991:
Professional basketball player Magic Johnson announced his retirement
from the game because of his infection with HIV.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Johnson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
thunderous (adj):
Very loud; suggestive of thunder
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has
consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the
absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible
persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion. At very most,
such a mind will consent to use past experience as a basis for its
future actions.
--Albert Camus
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