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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Example Sentences

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

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 • Nov. 29, 2023

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

Tecumseh visited other nations, calling for unity in defiance of the squatter presence on their lands.

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