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Whether you learned it in school, or through a jaunty musical number on The Simpsons, the sad tale of William Henry Harrison is ... His heroics extended into the War of 1812, when he recovered ...

Harrison served in the War of 1812 and rose to the rank of Major General in the U.S. Army. He was also the son of one of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Harrison V. President Harrison was the first ...