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Timeline of Events
1807 – The Chesapeake Incident
1811 – Battle of Tippecanoe
1812 – U.S. declares war.
1813 – Battle of Lake Erie
1813 – Battle of the Thames
1814 – March on Washington, D.C.
1814 – Battle of Baltimore (Fort McHenry)
1814 – Treaty of Ghent
1815 – Battle of New Orleans

The Chesapeake Incident (1807)
Main facts:
Britain and France at war
Both sides forbid neutral trade w/enemy.
British begin impressment of sailors (even Americans).
The Chesapeake Incident
H.M.S. Leopard stops the U.S. Chesapeake, demands to search for four British deserters.
Chesapeake refuses; British open fire.
3 U.S. sailors killed, 18 wounded.
3 U.S. citizens were impressed into British navy. A fourth was hung as a British deserter.
Results:
President Jefferson calls for embargo against Britain.
U.S. angry with U.K.
The Leopard fooled the Chesapeake into stopping by claiming they had mail they wanted delivered to Europe.
The Chesapeake had left in such a hurry they had buried their gunpowder and lighting fuses under other supplies. When the fighting started, they only managed to return one shot, when a sailor lit the powder by picking up a live coal from the cooking fire with his bare hands.

Battle of Tippecanoe (1811)
Main facts:
Shawnee leader Tecumseh forms an alliance of Indian nations against the U.S.
British supply them with weapons.
U.S. army under Harrison defeats the Indians.
Tecumseh was 12 years old, playing whites vs. Indians in the woods, when a party of whites wiped out his village & killed his father. He was adopted by the Shawnee chief.
Tecumseh met with Harrison before the battle to discuss a land treaty. T. pushed Harrison off the bench they were sharing. He said: "That’s what you’re doing to us!"
Tecumseh told his brothers: “Sell a country? Why not sell the air, the clouds, and the sea, as well as the earth?"
He was the last real hope for a Native American alliance against the whites.
Tecumseh’s brother

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