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

"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

Shawnee, Stillwater and Tecumseh residents also felt the earthquake, KFOR-TV reported.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024

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

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 • Nov. 14, 2023

William Tecumseh Sherman had telegraphed the President that the city of Atlanta, Georgia, had fallen to the Army of the Tennessee.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt