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Tecumseh 1768-1813
Shawnee chief

Born in Old Piqua, Ohio, he became chief of the Shawnees. He joined his brother, 'The Prophet', in a rising against the whites, suppressed at Tippecanoe by William Henry Harrison (1811). He passed into English service, and commanded the Indian allies in the war of 1812-13 as brigadier-general. He died fighting at the Thames River in Canada.

Bibliography: Glenn Tucker, Tecumseh: Vision of Glory (1956)