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General Arthur St. Clair at the Battle of the Wabash, where of 1, American soldiers were killed. Tecumseh was so bitter about the defeat that he refused to attend the subsequent negotiations or to acknowledge the Treaty of Greenville. In , Tecumseh traveled with a small contingency of a few hundred tribesmen, to what is now Indiana and joined his brother Tenskwatawa, who had recently become a prominent Native American religious leader known as the Prophet. Headquartered at Prophetstown, near the juncture of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers, Tecumseh began recruiting different tribes throughout the Northwest Territory and southern United States.
In the fall of , while Tecumseh was in the South on a recruiting mission, Indiana governor William Henry Harrison moved a force of 1, men to Prophetstown and entrenched themselves on a nearby hill.
On November 6, the Prophet sent a message asking to meet with Harrison. Then, during the early hours of November 7, the Tecumseh's brother launched a sneak attack on his camp. In the ensuing Battle of Tippecanoe , the Native Americans were thrown back and the victorious Americans burned the town. In the aftermath, Tecumseh returned to try and rebuild his shattered confederacy.
In the Northwest Territory, the different Native Americans tribes found their allegiances split. As British forces were stationed just outside the range of the Americans' guns, Tecumseh had his warriors repeatedly parade out from a nearby wooded area and circle back, making it appear that their numbers were much greater.
The circumstances surrounding Tecumseh's death and burial are unclear. At the time, there were several claims that one or another American soldier had killed him, though none of these claims has ever been confirmed. Tecumseh led his followers against the United States in many battles and supported the British during the War of But his dream of independence ended when he was killed at the Battle of Thames , which led to the collapse of his Indian confederacy.
Tecumapease taught Tecumseh the tenets of Shawnee culture; his older brother Cheeseekau taught him how to be a warrior. By his teenage years, Tecumseh had come to despise Americans after witnessing the atrocities they committed against the Shawnee people and their land; however, the brutal tactics some Indians used to fight the white man also horrified him.
In the late s, Tecumseh participated in a series of raids on settlers, then accompanied his brother Cheeseekau and a small band of Shawnee warriors to Tennessee to join a group of Cherokee Chickamauga.
He then fought at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on the Maumee River, where General Anthony Wayne and his army decisively defeated the Indians, and both sides signed the Treaty of Greenville which forced the Indians to forfeit much of their land in the Northwest Territory. He believed the land was shared by all Indians and could not be negotiated away. Nonetheless, Native Americans abided by the Treaty of Greenville, although white settlers and their leaders did not.
By the early s, Tecumseh had settled in Ohio and was a respected leader, war chief and orator. In , his younger brother Lalawethika experienced an alcohol-induced vision and declared his intent to lead Indians on a quest to reclaim their lands and culture. After correctly predicting a solar eclipse in , hordes of Indians from various tribes began following the Prophet. In , Tecumseh and the Prophet moved their growing multi-tribal alliance to Prophetstown, near the Wabash and Tippecanoe rivers in present-day Indiana.
Tecumseh traveled far to recruit disgruntled Indians to his pan-Indian alliance. In powerful speeches, he rallied them to his cause by warning that the only way to overcome their invaders was to unite and resist the American way of life.
After two hours of intense fighting at the Battle of Tippecanoe , Harrison defeated the Indians who then abandoned Prophetstown, leaving it open for Harrison to ransack and burn. A few months later, Tecumseh returned to Prophetstown and found both the village and his hard-won Indian coalition destroyed. Tecumseh rallied his remaining followers during the War of and joined British forces in Michigan, playing a key role in defeating American forces at the Siege of Detroit.
After Harrison invaded Canada, the British were forced to flee, and Tecumseh and his men grudgingly followed suit. Harrison pursued them to the Thames River where Tecumseh was killed on October 5, But in the English army it was stopped by the great Indian Tecumseh, who denounced as cowards any who would torture a helpless captive.
When Proctor objected that it was customary, and the men must be amused, Tecumseh challenged Proctor to mortal combat, man to man, whereupon Proctor backed down like the poltroon he was. Almost Buddha like in its wisdom.
I have actually been revived after suffering a cardiac arrest…. I am also a combat veteran, I so understand the warrior code of living life like a person who has purpose. I love the winter and snow but am disillusioned by snowflakes. See the joy in life. It would seem that those of us who grew up with nothing have a better grasp of life than those that want for nothing. Enjoy your life, be a good citizen.
Hey Micha! A Polish surprise as usual! Can you tell me what your source is for that image? Working on paper and would love to know where it came from primarily.
Polish author wrote an adventure series about Tecumseh and I read it several times in my youth. This poem only confirms he was as great man as the books pictured him. Very, very cool!
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