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Tecumseh definition

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Shawnee leader who attempted to establish a confederacy to unify Native Americans against white encroachment. He sided with the British in the War of 1812 and was killed in the Battle of the Thames.
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(person) 1768?-1813; chief of the Shawnee Indians: attempted to unite the W Indian tribes.
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Tecumseh Sentence Examples

  • A success was gained by them (October 5) at the Thames, where the Indian chief Tecumseh fell, but they made no serious progress.

  • Adjoining it is the Forest Lawn cemetery, in which are monuments to President Millard Fillmore, and to the famous Seneca chief Red Jacket (1751-1830), a friend of the whites, who was faithful when approached by Tecumseh and the Prophet, and warned the Americans of their danger; by many he has been considered the greatest orator of his race.

  • During the War of 1812 the Indians under the lead of Tecumseh were again on the side of the British.

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