Will Biden Fall Victim to Tecumseh’s Curse?

The curse that has haunted the White House for the last 200 years

Tecumseh (History.com)

In 1811, Tecumseh, the native American confederacy leader, and his men faced the United States military lead by William Henry Harrison. The battle at the Tippecanoe River ended in a defeat for Tecumseh and resulted in the death of his brother, Tenskwatawa. The battle meant to defend their territory from an aggressive American expansion to the west ended up in a horrific defeat for the Native Americans. Tecumseh died two years later in the Battle of the Thames in an effort to help the British in defeating the Americans, resulting in the collapse of the Native American confederacy.

This is where the story gets interesting!

According to a legend, Tecumseh made a prediction that frightened Americans for decades to come. The prediction was that every American president elected on a year divisible by twenty and ending in a zero will die before finishing his term.

The frightening prediction or curse manifested in 1841 when William Henry Harrison died of typhoid fever after winning his election in 1840. He was also the same man that defeated Tecumseh in the Battle of Tippecanoe and killed Tenskwatawa. Since then, the same curse was christened the “Curse of Tippecanoe” or “Tecumseh’s curse,”…