Following the American victory on Lake Erie, General Harrison led an invasion force into Upper Canada and pursued the retreating British and their Shawnee allies under the great chief Tecumseh. The British line collapsed almost immediately under the charge of Kentucky cavalry, but Tecumseh's warriors fought fiercely in the swampy woods on the British right. Tecumseh was killed in the fighting, though his exact killer remains disputed — Richard Mentor Johnson, later Vice President, claimed the credit. With Tecumseh's death, the dream of a unified Native American confederacy perished.
The death of Tecumseh destroyed the most dangerous military threat on the American frontier and effectively ended British-allied Native American resistance in the Great Lakes region. Harrison became a national hero, and 'Remember the River Raisin! Remember Tecumseh!' became rallying cries for western Americans.
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Seeking to recover the initiative, Kuropatkin launched a major offensive south of Mukden along the Sha-Ho River. Initial Russian advances pushed the Japanese back and briefly threatened to cut their supply lines. But coordination failures between Russian corps commanders allowed Oyama to stabilize the front and then counterattack. Both sides exhausted themselves in brutal fighting across broken terrain. The battle ended in mutual exhaustion, with neither side able to deliver a decisive blow, but the Russians had briefly held the offensive.
The Sha-Ho was Russia's most aggressive performance of the land war, demonstrating that Russian soldiers could fight effectively when properly motivated. The battle created a fortified stalemate along the Sha-Ho line that persisted until the Battle of Sandepu in January 1905.
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After losing the September 24, 2000 presidential election to opposition candidate Vojislav Koštunica, Slobodan Milošević attempted to falsify the results — as he had done in 1996. This time, the country refused to accept the fraud. On October 5, hundreds of thousands of Serbs from across the country converged on Belgrade; miners from Kolubara who had been on strike for weeks led a column of bulldozers and work vehicles toward the Federal Parliament building. Police melted away or joined the protesters. By evening the parliament building was in flames and Milošević had lost power. He was arrested by Serbian police in April 2001 and transferred to the ICTY in The Hague in June — the first sitting or former head of state to face an international war crimes tribunal.
The October 5 uprising ended a decade of Milošević's authoritarian rule that had launched four wars and reduced Yugoslavia to Serbia and Montenegro. His transfer to The Hague was a watershed in international criminal law — it demonstrated that heads of state were no longer immune from prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Milošević died of a heart attack in his cell at The Hague in March 2006, before a verdict could be reached, leaving his victims without formal legal closure.
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