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Tecumseh

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(tĭkŭm'sē), 1768?–1813, chief of the Shawnee , b. probably in Clark co., Ohio. Among his people he became distinguished for his prowess in battle, but he opposed the practice of torturing prisoners. When the United States refused to recognize his principle that all Native American land was the common possession of all the Native Americans and that land could not rightly be ceded by, or purchased from, an individual tribe, Tecumseh set out to bind together the Native Americans of the Old Northwest, the South, and the eastern Mississippi valley. His plan failed with the defeat of his brother, the Shawnee Prophet , at Tippecanoe (1811). Though Tippecanoe was, properly speaking, a drawn battle, it marked the collapse of the Native American military movement. In the War of 1812, Tecumseh allied himself with the British and was made a brigadier general. He led a large force of Native Americans in the siege of Fort Meigs, covered Gen. Henry Procter's retreat after the American victory on Lake…
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Tecumseh (1768–1813) was a Native American leader of Shawnee descent who organized one of the most successful resistance movements against the United States in the early nineteenth century, uniting several indigenous groups into what became known as Tecumseh's Confederacy. He led several attacks on…
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
(c. 1768–1813), Shawnee chief and leader of an Indian confederation. Born when the Shawnee Indians were fighting to defend their Kentucky and Ohio lands, Tecumseh lost his father at the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774), a brother in the American Revolutionary War, and another in the wars that…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
(1768-1813), Shawnee political leader and war chief. Born at Old Piqua, on the Mad River in western Ohio, Tecumseh grew to manhood amid the border warfare that ravaged the Ohio Valley during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. In 1774, his father, Puckeshinwa, was killed at the Battle of…
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From Encyclopedia of American Religious History
Tecumseh, a powerful Shawnee leader and orator,...
Also known as: Shooting Star; Tecumtha; Tekamthi (“goes through one place to another” or “panther springing across the sky”) (b. ca. 1768–d. 1813) pan-Indian organizer and leader in Tecumseh's Rebellion Tecumseh was a leader of the Native American resistance to white expansion in the early 19th…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(tĭkŭm'sē), 1768?–1813, chief of the Shawnee , b. probably in Clark co., Ohio. Among his people he became distinguished for his prowess in battle, but he opposed the practice of torturing prisoners. When the United States refused to recognize his principle that all Native American land was the…
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(born 1768, Old Piqua [modern Clark county, Ohio]—died Oct, 5, 1813, near Thames River, Upper Canada [now in Ontario, Can.]) The Shawnee Indian chief, orator, military leader, and advocate of intertribal Indian alliance, Tecumseh directed Indian resistance to white rule in the Ohio River valley. In…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born 1768, Old Piqua, in modern Clark county, Ohio, U.S.—died Oct. 5, 1813, near Thames River, Upper Canada) Shawnee Indian chief. As a boy during the American Revolution, Tecumseh participated in combined British and Indian attacks on American colonists. In 1794 he fought unsuccessfully against…
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Overview Tecumseh was born on March 9, 1768, at a Shawnee Indian village probably near the modern city of Xenia, Ohio. His name most likely referred to a stellar constellation conceived of in Shawnee lore as a cougar, giving rise to translations as either “Shooting Star” or “Crouching Panther.” His…
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