William Crawford

(noun)

A Colonel in the Continental Army who led attacks on Native American settlements in the Ohio Country. Crawford was captured, tortured, and executed by Native Americans in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre.

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  • The Year of Blood

    • In May 1782, Colonel William Crawford led a campaign to destroy enemy Native American settlements along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country with the hope of ending Native American attacks on American settlers.
    • Crawford led 500 volunteer militiamen deep into Native American territory and engaged with Native Americans and their British allies from Detroit.
    • During the retreat, Colonel Crawford and others were captured.
    • Crawford's execution was particularly brutal: he was tortured for at least two hours before being burned at the stake.
    • This painting depicts the ritual torture Crawford endured in retaliation for the massacre of Christian Delawares (though Crawford had no role in that massacre).

  • The Election of 1824

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    • Crawford, a slaveholder from Georgia, suffered a stroke in 1823 that left him largely incapacitated, but he ran nonetheless and had the backing of the New York machine headed by Martin Van Buren.
    • Results from the eighteen states where the popular vote determined the electoral vote gave Jackson the election, with 152,901 votes to Adams’s 114,023, Clay’s 47,217, and Crawford’s 46,979.
    • Adams won 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37.
    • Following the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment, only the top three candidates in the electoral vote were admitted as candidates in the House: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William Harris Crawford.

  • The War in the West

    • In a subsequent campaign led by Colonel William Crawford against American Indian communities along the Sandusky River in May 1782, Crawford was captured and tortured in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre.
    • Crawford’s execution was widely publicized in the United States, which worsened the already strained relationship between American Indians and European Americans.

  • The Election of 1816 and the Monroe Presidency

    • However, Monroe initially faced stiff competition from Secretary of War William H.
    • Crawford of Georgia.
    • Crawford never formally declared himself a candidate because he believed he had little chance against Monroe and feared such a contest might deny him a place in the new cabinet.
    • Still, Crawford's supporters posed a significant challenge during the election.

  • The "Era of Good Feelings"

    • Calhoun, and William H.
    • Crawford.

  • Painting and Sculpture

    • Leading figures of the Ashcan school included Robert Henri, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, George Benjamin Luks, William Glackens, and John Sloan .
    • Charles Sheeler and the modernists Charles Demuth and Ralston Crawford were referred to as Precisionists for their sharply defined renderings of machines and architectural forms.
    • Irving Couse, William Henry Jackson, Marsden Hartley, Andrew Dasburg, and Georgia O'Keeffe were some of the more prolific artists of the Southwest.
    • Paul Jennewein and Edward McCartan were leading sculptors of the time, as well as Elie Nadelman, Albin Polasek, Gaston Lachaise, William Zorach, and Carl Milles.

  • Cinema

    • The period saw the emergence of box office stars, many of whom are still household names, such as Mae Murray, Ramón Novarro, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Warner Baxter, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Bebe Daniels, Billie Dove, Dorothy Mackaill, Mary Astor, Nancy Carroll, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Haines, Conrad Nagel, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Dolores del Río, Norma Talmadge, Colleen Moore, Nita Naldi, John Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong, and Al Jolson.

  • Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

    • Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, Walt Disney, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Jimmy Stewart, Errol Flynn, and Clark Gable were only a few of the film legends of the time, while some of the films of the period became instant classics, from Escapist works such as King Kong (1933) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) to romances and drams including Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Gone With the Wind (1939). 
    • Celebrated modernists also included Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner.

  • Efficient wastewater treatment

    • (Crawford, Caroline, ‘Good Things are Growing at Living Technologies Inc', Business People– Vermont)

  • The Norman Invasion of 1066 CE

    • The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
    • William's claim to the English throne derived from his familial relationship with the childless Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor, who may have encouraged William's hopes for the throne.
    • The deaths of Tostig and Hardrada at Stamford left William as Harold's only serious opponent.
    • Harold's army confronted William's invaders on October 14 at the Battle of Hastings.
    • William of Jumieges claimed that Harold was killed by William.