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Wikimedia Commons — File:William Henry Harrison.jpg (Public domain; Albert Gallatin Hoit portrait)
William Henry Harrison
February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841
Born Charles City County, Virginia
Died Washington, D.C.
Major General, U.S. Army; Northwest Army command, War of 1812 — Tippecanoe (1811 prelude), Fort Meigs, Battle of the Thames (October 5, 1813)
William Henry Harrison’s War of 1812 file turns on the Northwest frontier, not the later White House month. As major general commanding the Army of the Northwest he held Fort Meigs through British and Native assaults in 1813, then crossed into Upper Canada and won the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813 — a dated field victory recorded in Army returns and the British after-action papers. Tippecanoe (1811) sits as the pre-war hinge that already made his name on the Wabash.
Virginia birth, territorial governorship, and the 1841 presidency are other chapters. This register lists Northwest command, Fort Meigs, and the Thames: unit, dates, result. Harrison died in Washington on April 4, 1841. The public-domain Hoit portrait on Wikimedia Commons is used here. He is not listed as missing.
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