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The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812

CHAPTER II
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It was all over in one hour and twenty minutes.

Harrison's foot soldiers had no chance to close with the enemy.

The Americans lost only fifteen killed and thirty wounded, and they took about five hundred prisoners and all Procter's artillery, muskets, baggage, and stores.
Not only was the Northwest Territory thus regained for the United States but the power of the Indian alliance was broken.

Most of the hostile tribes now abandoned the British cause.

Tecumseh's confederacy of Indian nations fell to pieces with the death of its leader.


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