The British despised “Little Jemmy,” as they called Madison, who was five feet two inches tall, and they held in equal contempt his coastal fleet of little boats. But soon Americans had reasons of their own to be enraged. From over the mountains came reports that British Canada had begun arming the Indians, who were scalping Americans in the Northwest. On November 7, 1811, in a bloody battle on Tippecanoe Creek, a tributary of the Wabash, warriors of Tecumseh killed two hundred Americans out of a force of one thousand under the command of William Henry Harrison, the governor of the Indiana
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