1813
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1813
Events
Boone County
- The first Lutheran minister in the county, William Carpenter, arrives.
Kentucky
- Forced to surrender, Kentucky militia are massacred by Indian troops following the Battle of the River Raisin (War of 1812).
U.S. & World
- Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British navy in the Battle of Lake Erie.
- Tecumseh, who had allied himself with the British, dies at the Battle of the Thames.
- An editorial in the Troy Post in New York pioneers the term “Uncle Sam” to refer to the United States.
- European ballrooms are witness to the new dance craze sweeping the Continent, the waltz.
- Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice is published for the first time
More Information
- Boone County Tax Lists, 1813.
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