William was privately tutored and mastered grammar and classics sufficient enough to meet the entrance requirements of Hampden-Sydney College in 1787 at the age of 14. He studied the classics and history and although he never finished, he proclaimed proficiency "in belles lettres information and particularly in history". In 1790 and 1791 he briefly studied medicine in Richmond and Philadelphia but after his father died in 1791, he switched interests to a military career. He obtained a commission as ensign in the First Regiment of Infantry of the Regular Army. In Aug. 16, 1791, Harrison managed to persuade a com

The main task facing Harrison as governor was to obtain title to more Indian lands so settlers could move forward into the western wilderness. He negotiated a series of treaties with the Indians resulting in millions of acres of land opening up to white settlement. This encroachment on Indian hunting grounds was not without opposition among the Indian population. Harrison had to defend the settlements against the building hostilities. The threat against Indian attack grew to a serious situation in 1809 after the Treaty of Fort Wayne when the Delaware, Miami, Potowatomi, and Eel Indians agreed to turn over approximately 3 million acres in return for a yearly fee ranging from $200 to $500 to each tribe. An eloquent and persuasive chieftain named Tecumseh, along with his religious brother, the Prophet, began to organize an Indian Confederation to prevent further white expansion and land sales. Harrison and the brothers had a dramatic confrontation at Grouseland in August 1810 that failed to reconcile the conflicts between the Indian and American interests.

The demoralized Indians took care of their dead and wounded and left Prophet's Town, abandoning most of their food and belongings. When Harrison arrived at the village on Nov. 8th, they found only an aged squaw, who was left with a wounded chief found not far from the battlefield. Harrison and his men burned the town and they started their painful return trip to Vincennes. This battle disrupted Tecumseh's Indian confederacy but did not diminish Indian raids. By the spring of 1812, the Indians were again terrorizing the frontier.

He let Daniel Webster edit his inaugural address which was full of references to Roman classical allusions. Webster managed to trim some of these references and boosted he had killed "seventeen Roman proconsuls as dead as smelts, every one of them." Still, Harrison's gave one of the longest inaugural addresses ever delivered on March 4, 1841. In it he emphasized he would be obedient to the will of the people as expressed through Congress even though he was nationalistic in his outlook. He also said, he would not run for a second term. A promise that proved to be unnecessary. In late March he caught cold which developed into Pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, one month to the day from is inauguration, he died - the first President to die in office.

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