THAMES, BATTLE OF THE

engagement fought on the Thames River near Chatham, Ont. (Oct. 5, 1813), in the War of 1812. Gen. William H. Harrison led an American force of about 3,000 against a British army of approximately 400 regulars commanded by Gen. Henry A. Procter, reinforced by 1,000 Native Americans under Tecumseh. After the British were driven from Detroit, Harrison followed their retreating army into Ontario and up the Thames River until General Procter was forced to give battle. A cavalry charge broke the British ranks, and the Native Americans offered the only real resistance. Tecumseh was slain in battle, thus completely destroying the native confederacy he had raised against the United States. By the battle of the Thames, U.S. control in the Northwest was restored.

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War on the Great Lakes: Essays Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie
Book by William Jeffrey Welsh, David Curtis Skaggs; Kent State University Press, 1991
Subjects: Erie, Lake, Battle Of, 1813--Congresses
...them near Moraviantown and defeated them at the Battle of the Thames. 12 The most immediate impact of the British loss...and subsequent defeat of the Right Division at the Battle of the Thames. Some sixteen months after the Declaration of War...
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The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power 1930-40
Book by Derek Wood, Derek D. Dempster; Hutchinson, 1961
Subjects: Britain, Battle Of, 1940, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations
...aircraft barely changed from the start of the battle. It stood at about 650 aircraft...which to celebrate the victory of the Battle of Britain. On August 15th the Germans...Kesselring, commanded Luftflotte 2 in the Battle of Britain Generalfeldmarschall...
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Dangerous Sky: A Resource Guide to the Battle of Britain
Book by Eunice Wilson; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Britain, Battle Of, 1940--Bibliography
...Bibliography Myron J. Smith Jr. The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway, 1942: A Selected...Bibliography Myron J. Smith Jr. The Battle of Jutland: A Bibliography Eugene...DANGEROUS SKY A Resource Guide to the Battle of Britain Eunice Wilson Bibliographies...
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The Battle of Alcazar: An Account of the Defeat of Don Sebastian of Portugal at El-Ksar El-Kebir
Book by E. W. Bovill; Batchworth Press, 1952
Subjects: Kassr-el-Kebir, Battle of, 1578, Sebastian--King of Portugal--1554-1578
...opposite the mouth of the Thames. She, there fore...one day to wear the suit in battle and prove himself worthy of its dazzling splendour...his enemy but the battle was lost before...subtle combination of threats and bribes...
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The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima
Book by Constantine Pleshakov; Basic Books, 2002
Subjects: Tsushima, Battle Of, 1905
...Whistles of factories mingled with whistles of boats from the River Thames. London streets were filling up with the first...A number of problems were unavoidable. First of all, the crews lacked battle experience. The peaceful reign of the tsars...
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Did Radar Win the Battle of Britain?
Journal article by Anthony J. Cumming; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Battle of Britain, 1940--Social aspects, Radio direction finders--Usage, Social historians--Works, United Kingdom. Royal Air Force--History, United Kingdom. Royal Air Force--Social aspects
...Invasion 1940: The Truth About the Battle of Britain and What Stopped Hitler (London...2005), 192-3. Robinson advises that the weather charts for 15 September 1940...towards the county of Suffolk or the Thames Estuary located within 11 Group. Fighter...
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Vergilius Redivivus: Studies in Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry
Journal article by Estelle Haan; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 95, 2005
Subjects: Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets
...qualities. Bisses description of the battle between the spider and the fly...67-87, and also with the great battle scenes of the Aeneid. The fly/spider encounter...attested by his Latin poem on the battle of Pygmies and cranes,75 only lends...
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Eisenhower as Ground-forces Commander: the British Viewpoint
Journal article by G. E. Patrick Murray; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
...London. In his address he paid tribute to the Battle of Britain, fought two years before the Americans arrived in Europe. He thanked the British...consider these things, then the valley of the Thames draws closer to the farms of Kansas and the plains...
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Metropolitan Identities: Perspectives on London
Journal article; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Poetry, Singers
...applied to the world of the rhetorician. Thus Quintilian...engaging in a forensic battle and witnessing victory...of tolling produced by the bells of two Thames-side churches: St Mary-le-Bow...the shallowest point of the Thames to connect Westminster...
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Benjamin Franklin's Savage Eloquence: Hoaxes from the Press at Passy, 1782
Journal article by Carla Mulford; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 152, 2008
Subjects: Printers, Prisoners
...to the parliamentarians washing off the colonists blood in the Thames - are painful to read, yet these very images cast down the gauntlet to Britains vaunted liberalism, its forms of state, its presumed concern for all British people, its self-gratulating...
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The Battle of Peace and Industry
Magazine article by Peter Davey; The Architectural Review, Vol. 208, September 2000
Subjects: Architectural firms--Exhibitions
...London, 1851, p23. (3.) Pevsner, Nikolaus, A History of Building Types, Thames Hudson, Londoit, 1987, p244. (4.) Illustrated Exhibitor, op. cit., p2. (5.) Ibid, p3. (6.) Since 1928, the Bureau International des Expositions in Paris has...
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Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough
Magazine article by Juliet Gardiner; History Today, Vol. 58, December 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...whirl conducted in town, country and on the Thames, better even than Vita Sackville West in her novel The Edwardians (for which Ettie was reputedly...Desborough boys--Julian Grenfell, poet of Into Battle, and his younger brother Billy--killed...
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Spanning Centuries: Until 1729, London Bridge Was the Capital's Only Crossing over the Thames and a Microcosm of the City It Served, Lined with Houses and Shops on Either Side. on the 800th Anniversary of Its Original Construction, Leo Hollis Looks at the History of an Icon
Magazine article by Leo Hollis; History Today, Vol. 59, July 2009
Subjects: Bridges (Structures)--History, Bridges--History, London Bridge (London, England)--History
...began to grow so the bridge s monopoly of the Thames came under threat. The rapid expansion of London beyond the City walls to the west soon...Corporation of" London fought increasingly doomed battles to maintain its control over the river crossing...
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The Land before London: Long before the Romans Built Their First Trading Post on the Banks of the River Thames, London Was Home to a Succession of Groups and Tribes Who Lived, Hunted and Worked in the Fertile Valley. over Time, the Traces of These Ancient Londoners Have Come to Light, and Now Form the Focus of a New Museum Gallery
Magazine article by Mark Honigsbaum; Geographical, Vol. 74, October 2002
Subjects: London, England--History, Prehistoric peoples
...Age work of art, the shield was recovered from the Thames near Battersea Bridge. It is made of bronze sheets and panels inlaid with coloured...wood or leather core. For display rather than battle, it was possibly cast into the river as an offering...
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Romancing the Stone: Discovered during the French Occupation but Seized by the Victorious British after Six Months of Desert Battle, the Rosetta Stone Symbolized the Struggle for Cultural Supremacy between Two Great Rivals, Both on a Quest for Knowledge and Archaeological Riches. Jonathan Downs Tells How Exactly the Rosetta Stone Found Its Way to Britain
Magazine article by Jonathan Downs; History Today, Vol. 56, May 2006
Subjects: Egypt--History, Egyptian foreign relations
...Stone was definitely on board for it was then shipped round the Kentish coast and up the Thames, handed to Customs and Excise, and later conveyed to the Society of Antiquaries on March 11th. All this time the Madras was still being overhauled on Malta...
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Utility Boss Flails in Battle of Leaks; THE CITY INTERVIEW
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 9, 2009
...Utility Boss Flails in Battle of Leaks; THE CITY INTERVIEW...chief executive of Thames Water - Britains largest...intercepting overflows of sewage into the Thames. But bold plans like...debt-fuelled nature of the Thames takeover. THE deal...
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NELSON AND AN UNSUNG HERO; Commemorated: Horatio, Lord Nelson, Born 250 Years Ago, Won the Battle of the Nile, Left, with John Nicol's Assistance
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 24, 2008
...had parted, he docked in the Thames and went straight toLincoln...France and homecoming seamen ran the gauntlet ofthe press gang...himself hauled aboard a ship of the line for sevenyears at sea, including the battles of Cape St Vincent and the...
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Haye Puts in a Late Show and Turns Up the Heat Ahead of His Big-Time 'Battle of Britain' Maccarinelli's Opponent Claims Foul Even before Getting into Ring
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 7, 2008
...pharaoh took a brief back seat on the banks of the Thames yesterday as, to the general bemusement of school coach parties and satisfied diners, David...which can only happen in big-time boxing, his "battle of Britain" cruiserweight rival, Swanseas Enzo...
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Battle of Redcar Beach; Seaside Town Transformed into Dunkirk War Zone for Keira Knightley's Latest Film
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 22, 2006
Subjects: Motion pictures, Movies
Battle of Redcar Beach; Seaside...army vehicles sink in the sand against a backdrop...rescue. There is even a Thames barge on the sand as...recreate the desperate days of the Dunkirk evacuation...escaped under the nose of the advancing German army...
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Battle of Redcar Beach; Seaside Town Transformed into Dunkirk War Zone for Keira Knightley's Latest Film
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 22, 2006
Subjects: Motion pictures, Movies
Battle of Redcar Beach; Seaside...army vehicles sink in the sand against a backdrop...rescue. There is even a Thames barge on the sand as...recreate the desperate days of the Dunkirk evacuation...escaped under the nose of the advancing German army...
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Thames, Battle of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THAMES, BATTLE OF THE engagement fought on the Thames River near Chatham, Ont. (Oct...native confederacy he had raised against the United States. By the battle of the Thames, U.S. control in the Northwest was restored...
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Thames , River, Canada
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...London and Chatham to Lake St. Clair. It is navigable to Chatham, near which was fought (1813) the battle of the Thames (see Thames, battle of the ) in the War of 1812. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...
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War of 1812
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...defeat. But with the victory of Capt. Oliver Perry on Lake...were able to advance against the British, who burned Detroit...pursued and defeated them in a battle at the Thames River (see Thames, battle of the ), in which Tecumseh , the...
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Tecumseh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...covered Gen. Henry Procters retreat after the American victory on Lake Erie, and lost his life in the battle of the Thames (see Thames, battle of the ), in which Gen. William Henry Harrison overwhelmed Procter and his Native American allies. Tecumseh...
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Harrison, William Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and establish American hegemony in the West at the battle of the Thames River on Oct. 5, 1813 (see Thames, battle of the ), in which Tecumseh was killed. Later Harrison...
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