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Significant1813

Battle of the Thames

Moraviantown · Upper Canada

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 5 October 1813, an American army under William Henry Harrison defeated a retreating British and Native force near Moraviantown in Upper Canada; the death of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in the battle shattered his pan-Indian confederacy.

Belligerents2

  • United States
  • British Empire and Tecumseh's Confederacy

ON THE MAPUnited States (1804)

Conflict graph

PART OFWar of 1812 · Tecumseh's War

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of the Thames
  2. Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
  3. HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
  4. Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)
  5. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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