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==19th century==

==19th century==

===War of 1812===

===War of 1812===

The Indian attacks on western settlements were encouraged by the British government, and were a major reason for the U.S. declaration of war against Britain in the [[War of 1812]].  General [[William henry Harrison]] destroyed the Canadian Indians in 1813, killing the leader [[Tecumseh]].  

The Indian attacks on western settlements were encouraged by the British government, and were a major reason for the U.S. declaration of war against Britain in the [[War of 1812]].  General [[William Henry Harrison]] destroyed the Canadian Indians in 1813, killing the leader [[Tecumseh]]. This ended the threat of Indian raids that had been one of the main causes of the war, and also ended long-standing British plans to create an Indian Confederacy in the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota) that would be a "buffer state" between the U.S. and Canada. After the war the British no longer supported Indian raids, and the U.S. bought up the Indian lands.