Theyalmost succeeded at destroyingthe Golden Gatebridge, but the superiorair forceoftheU. S.defeated them after only 2 bombswere dropped with both missing the bridge by at least 500 ft.
The Indian gallery features a Rembrandt Peale portrait (c. 1813) of future U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who defeated Tecumseh at Thames, as well as a buckskin jacket worn by Hillis Hadjo, leader of the Red Sticks (Batons Rouge), who were defeatedby another future U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.