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command of Fort Harrison, on the Wabash. When 

 the war with Great Britain commenced, the Fort was 

 attacked bj four hundred Indians, and for his success- 

 ful defence of it he was brevetted Major. After that 

 war he received the rank of Colonel, and during the 

 Black Hawk war, in 1832, distinguished himself at 

 the battle of Bad-axe, which resulted in the capture 

 of Black Hawk and the Prophet. 



In 1836 he was ordered to Florida, in command of 

 a separate column, and in December, 1837, fought at 

 the battle of Okee-cho-bee, which resulted in the total 

 defeat of a large body of the Indians. In May, 

 1845, Texas was annexed to the Union, and in August 

 following, General Taylor, then in command of the 

 first department of the army, proceeded with a portion 

 of his troops to Corpus Christi. On the 11th of 

 March, 1816, he took up his line of march for the 

 Rio Grande, where he arrived on the 28th. On the 

 12th of April he was summoned by the Mexican 

 General to evacuate his posts on the river, which he 

 refused to do. On the 1st of May he left his in- 

 trenchments opposite Matamoras to open the com- 

 munication with Point Isabel. On the 8th of May, 

 on his return to relieve Fort Brown, which was bom- 

 barded by the Mexicans, he was encountered by 6000 



