The Ninth President of the United States, William Harrison, was elected in 1840, 233 years after the 3rd attempt by English colonists to land and gain a foothold on the unknown continent, then called Virginia. W.Garrison, whose father Benjamin Garrison signed the famous Declaration of independence in 1776 as Governor of Virginia, became famous in his military youth for participating in the displacement, destruction and expulsion of Indian tribes from the native lands of Ohio.
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The decisive battle with an Indian tribe led by chief Tecumseh (1768-1813) took place in 1813 on the canadian river Thames. Left without the promised support of the British military, the Indians were then severely defeated. And the mortally wounded chief Tecumseh himself, according to the legend that has existed since, died on October 5, 1813, cursed all future presidents who were elected in the year ending with "zero". Why in these years? The chief didn't have time to tell anyone... these Indians are so strange.
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William Garrison knew about this curse of the Indian chief, but did not take it into his head when he was elected before Christmas, 1840. But when he was sworn in in March 1841, President Harrison caught a bad cold in the wind, had severe pleurisy, and after a painful illness, he died on April 4, having been in power only formally for 30 days and 12 hours. This tragedy was the subject of publications in the American press, which intimidated the public with the curse of the Indian.
But the curse of Tecumseh then manifested itself in the history of the American presidency repeatedly. So the 16th President Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860. and was killed in 1865. President Garfield was elected in 1880, but died six months later. President McKinley was elected in 1890, and he was assassinated a year later. Harding, Roosevelt, and Kennedy also failed to complete their presidential terms, and all were elected in years ending in "0". In total, 7 US presidents were victims of the legendary curse of an Indian chief.
It seems that the second President Reagan, who was elected at the end of 1980, managed to break this curse, but very relatively. Within 3 months after his election, an attempt was made on Reagan, he was wounded in the lung, and after a quick recovery 2 years later, he suddenly began to go deaf and soon developed a cluster of malignant tumors in the intestines, nose and neck. And the last 10 years of his life, he was in complete dementia due to rampant Alzheimer's disease. So the curse of the Indian still covered the 35th President of the United States.
Nor did 43-year-old President George W. Bush, who was elected in late 2000, avoid problems. 10 months after his election on September 11, 2001. The US has been subject to a series of horrific terrorist attacks with huge casualties. It was Bush who started the feverish US war against terrorism, the unjustified invasion of Afghanistan for a long, bloody 14 years, inspired by the Pentagon, no less bloody slaughter in Iraq, again with great loss of life.
In 2005, the United States was hit by hurricane Katrina, and President Bush was sharply criticized for the extremely poor management of the crisis, when almost 2 thousand people were killed. At the end of 2007, the United States fell into the largest recession since world war II. On top of everything that happened in his 2 terms, in 2009 he was mistakenly buried by a South African TV channel. So 2 presidential terms of Bush-ml. coincided with huge loss of life and destruction.
Many American skeptical observers stubbornly do not believe in this legendary Indian conspiracy, calling everything that happened to her!!! presidents of the United States by pure coincidence. But it seems to me that the 78-year-old Biden, with his problems of developing dementia, should think about it. And trump, too, is no longer a boy, and he is not immune from the negative impact of that curse of the evil Tecumseh Indian.
Maybe both of them, facing each other just in 2020, should not try their luck? Maybe we should retire before it's too late, so that we can live longer and die a decent death, even if it's in dementia, like Reagan? And instead of themrself, substitute by 73-year-old Hillary or 80-year-old Nancy Pelosi for the vacant place under the Indian curses?
Or maybe the American colonizers should not have destroyed the native Indians 300 years ago and brought such a cruel curse on the country and its population?
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