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Tecumseh, disillusioned, joined British forces in Canada. He was commissioned a brigadier general in the British army and, in 1813, was killed fighting against General Harrison in the Battle of the Thames, in Ontario. Tenskwatawa died in 1834. Harrison and his running mate, John Tyler, won the presidential election of 1840 with the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too!” Inaugurated on March 4, 1841, Harrison died of pneumonia only a month later.

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Seismological studies seem to verify Native American legends concerning earthquakes that devastated the central Mississippi Valley many years ago. In addition to the nineteenth-century New Madrid quakes, powerful quakes shook the region in the ninth or tenth century and again in the fifteenth. There may have been an earlier quake in the fourth or fifth century as well, suggesting that the recurrence period for major earthquakes in the Mississippi Valley is several centuries. This periodicity may characterize only postglacial times, however. Earlier events could have been separated by thousands of years. Less intense quakes, with magnitudes of 6 to 7, appear to have happened about once a century.

But it is the great series of earthquakes that began in 1811 that resonates in American history. The ground shook throughout the central Mississippi Valley for at least six months. No one knows how many people were killed in that remote frontier region, but many villages were destroyed. Shock waves were felt as far away as the East Coast. And lesser vibrations continued for years.

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