Person

Tecumseh

c. 1768–1813 · 18th century

Tecumseh was a Shawnee leader who built a confederacy of Native American peoples to resist the expansion of the United States into the Old Northwest. With his brother Tenskwatawa he founded Prophetstown in 1808 and rejected land cessions such as the Treaty of Fort Wayne. He allied with Britain in the War of 1812, helped take Detroit and was killed at the Battle of the Thames in 1813.

Tecumseh
Image: attributed to Owen Staples (1866–1949), based on the engraving published by Benson John Lossing[1] · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Tecumseh's Confederacy

Great speeches

Tecumseh to the Osages1811

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