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2009
West Lafayette High School ended a perfect season with a 15-0 record by winning the Class 3A Indiana High School state football championship. The West Lafayette "Red Devils" defeated Evansville Memorial 24-10 to win their second IHSAA state football championship. Red Devil quarterback Daniel W...
11/28/2009
Congratulations to Jennifer O'Shea of the Keller Williams Signature Partners Market Center in Lafayette, Indiana. Her husband, Kevin O'Shea, just coached the Lafayette Central Catholic Knights to the Indiana CLASS A State Football Championship!!! WAY TO GO KEVIN AND JENNIFER!!! Our youngest d...
11/27/2009
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THE TIPPECANOE BATTLEFIELD REMEMBERED The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811 and is regarded by most historians as the opening act of hostilities that led America and Britain to fight THE WAR OF 1812. ...
11/09/2009
BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE MONUMENT: 101 YEARS OLD TODAY THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE MONUMENT WAS DEDICATED 101 YEARS AGO TODAY, on November 7, 1908 in Battle Ground, Indiana. The monument(pictured above) was a memorial to General William Henry Harrison and the men who ...
11/07/2009
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THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE: November 7, 1811 PROPHETS ROCK The Prophet (half-brother of Tecumseh who was away recruiting Indian nations for his Confederacy) directed the attack upon William Henry Harrison's forces that were encamped over 1/4 mile away from the rock pictured above. During the ...
11/07/2009
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AS I MENTIONED IN EARLIER BLOGS THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE (present day Battle Ground, Indiana) WAS THE OPENING CONFRONTATION OF THE WAR OF 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. A beautiful park with an excellent interpretive museum sits on the former battle site in BATTLE GROU...
11/04/2009
REFLECTIONS FROM A CREEK THAT MADE A PRESIDENT: PART II THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE: November 7, 1811 (present day, BATTLE GROUND, INDIANA) TECUMSEH emerged as the principle Native American political and military leader in the old NORTHWEST TERRITORY after the TREATY OF GREENVILLE...
11/03/2009
THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE: NOVEMBER 7, 1811 As a creek goes Burnett's Creek is small, routine- even ordinary. Yet during the first week of November, 200 years ago the crossing of this creek would lead to war between Britain and the United States. Native American forces led by The Pro...
11/02/2009
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