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Colonel Johnson Killing Tecumseh
Photographer: Internet Archive
Caption: Colonel Johnson Killing Tecumseh
Additional Description: From Johnson’s 1843 vice presidential campaign biography, A Biographical Sketch of Col. Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky by a Kentuckian. Johnson campaigned on the dubious claim that he had personally killed Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames. His campaign slogan was "Rumpsey Dumpsey, Rumpsey Dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh."
Submitted: April 23, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p424554
File Size: 2.918 Megabytes

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