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I've often wondered of the origin of this tune.  I've read an online discussion and some guessed it might be in reference to Fort Sackville (1777), Battle of Tippecanoe (1811), or St. Clair's defeat (1791).  I initially wondered about the latter event but if any of them, the syncopated melody seems to imply that, if it refers to any of those events, it certainly seems that it must've been in retr…