Tecumseh

American

[ti-kuhm-suh] / tɪˈkʌm sə /

Also Tecumtha

noun

1768?–1813, American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe.

Tecumseh British

/ tɪˈkʌmsə /

noun

?1768–1813, American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe. He attempted to unite western Indian tribes against the White people, but was defeated at Tippecanoe (1811). He was killed while fighting for the British in the War of 1812

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Tecumseh Cultural

A Shawnee chief of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He took arms against American settlers moving into the Middle West, and supported the British in the War of 1812, in which he was killed.

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"When we blew helium through the larynges for the first time, the frequency shift was immediately obvious, and we knew we'd solved the mystery," says author William Tecumseh Fitch of the University of Vienna.

From Science Daily

His other premier work is a classic man-on-a-horse — the gilded equestrian statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, victorious Union Army general, standing in front of the Plaza Hotel at an entrance to New York’s Central Park.

From Los Angeles Times

“As Americans, we live with the consequences of the Civil War whether we know it or not,” Fleischer said, “and if you remove William Tecumseh Sherman from history the war could have ended very differently.”

From Seattle Times

Did you know that an integrated cavalry unit of Union-supporting Southerners helped Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lay siege to Atlanta in the closing months of the Civil War?

From Los Angeles Times

Cannonballs and other ordnance in the river dated to the Feb. 17-18, 1865, capture of Columbia by Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman as part of his Carolinas campaign to close out the war.

From Washington Times

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