Tecumseh

American  

[ti-kuhm-suh] / tɪˈkʌm sə /

Also Tecumtha

noun

1. 1768?–1813, American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe.

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Tecumseh British  

/ tɪˈkʌmsə /

noun

1. ?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  

1. 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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Tecumseh

That landmark picture features McElwee, then in his mid-30s, as he tries to chronicle the exploits of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid siege to the South during the Civil War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Injured on the first night of the battle, he was resting in the pouring rain beneath a tree when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman found him.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

"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 ● Feb. 25, 2026

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union forces squared off against Confederate troops during his scorched-earth campaign through Georgia in 1864.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

At that meeting Tecumseh had delegates with him from several nations, including Kickapoos, Wyandots, Peorias, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, Winnebagos, and Shawnees.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz