Show tories of GREAT IN by ELMO SCOTT WATSON copyright 1922 wes e newspaper un 0 WARRIOR TECUMSEH BECAME A BRITISH GENERAL TN N THE 3 sear par 1 68 69 wife lof I 1 of chief I 1 of tl V e shawnees gave gane birth to triplets one of them i or T tecumseh the shoot ing star a name strangely prophetic of his meteoric career NN was as deR destined tined to be called by many the greatest american indian tecumseh ed him himself elf in battle eaily caily although he was a great v arriol he w m as i ot a cruel one and due dle to his ce tl e Shiw shawnees nees gradual gave up the practice of tor turing captives he was i as a proud chief tain too at a council with gen liam henry harrison governor of in diana dlana in 1810 the interpreter handed tecumseh a it chair with mith the tour your father re requests you to take tale this S hair my father the sun Is my father and the earth Is my mother and I 1 will nill rest upon her bosom replied replica tecumseh haughtily as I 1 e took I 1 Is place among his ni warriors on the ground tecumseh I 1 ad come to protest against the cession of slaw st au nee lands under tt e treaty ol 01 0 fort NN aj ne tie I 1 ut his objections balne I 1 I 1 im nothing he ile travelled throughout the middle west gaining recruits for his cinfel aeration ills scheme faidel iv while hile he w wis is ab absent abent ent his brother the loud mouthed I 1 pophet rasi ly pre cip bated an attach attack upon harrison and the battle of in 1811 ended tecumseh s dream forever he ile imme enlisted in the service of the british who at the outbreak of the war inar of 1812 made him a brigadier general once while he d scoy sc d some of his ills indians butel ering helpless captives I 1 ie e hotly rebuked general proctor tor for allowing it sir replied the general I 1 lour our in deans could not be restrained I 1 shouted tecumseh you are not fit to com command go home and put on petticoats gatei in the campaign when the cowardly proctor continued retreating tecumseh forced I 1 tin to make male a stand on the thames river rl ver in ontario he ile seems to have haxe lad I 1 ad a presentiment of death for he discarded his generals uniform and went nent into the battle wear ing the deerskin garb of a shawnee marrior or lie ile wis w is killed in that battle his had been he career of a shoot ing star truly flom the mad river in ohio his birthplace to the thames it had been only 45 3 vears ears but in that short time tecumseh made his place in history story CHIEF weatherford A PAGE OF BLOODY HISTORY ATE in the summer of 1813 the L LATE whole country was nias stunned by the news of a terrible indian massacre at tort mimms ala only a 3 a ear defore had occurred the slaughter at tort dearborn but compared to the h inot at foil minus tie tragedy seamed insignificant of a garrison of men women omen and children only 17 escaped alive ahe leader in this massacre was the areek reek chief red eagle commonly knowe as weatherford a halfbreed halt breed who vho had bad inherited the worst qualities of both races an army of 5 men was put in the field under gen andrew jackson to punish the creeks he made them pay dearly for fort minims at tal lus hatches creek warriors died at talladega they lost more at the holy ground a natural for tress on the alabama river weather ford was as the lait latt to leave the field hie ills capture seemed certain sudden ly IY he turned his horse to a cliff where there was mas a sharp deop 0 of 15 feet to the river the chief galloped to the brink and in one greit leap horse and rider dropped into the river disappearing beneath the water nater hen iben emerging they swam to safet after suffering several defeats the creeks prepared to make their last stand at Tol lopel a or the great horseshoe bend of the tallapoosa river here on march 27 1814 jack son attacked them the battle was one of the bloodiest in indian history weatherford lost warriors lors tl tie e flower flomer of the creek nation his ills po pov er was broken soon afterward the indians sued tor for peace one of the conditions imposed by jackson was that weatherford should be snarled ard del delivered hered to him rather thon suffer such degradation the chief an bounced that he would surrender vol voi unwarily unta arlly rily A few days later an indian walked into jackson jacksons s tent I 1 am weather ford who commanded at fort rort mimms minims he said I 1 desire peace for my peo pie and han hive e co cone tie to ask it I 1 am in bour po er do with me as vou ou please I 1 wish to take no advantage of you replied old illel ory you may return to bour tribe and continue the war but if you vou are taken vou iou shall receive no quarter you can safely address me in si st it terms now was AN eatherford eat herfor Is 1 s ii it ri fled fied reply I 1 could once animate ry warriors to battle bu I 1 v cin vin in not ini mate the dead I 1 ass asa tor for peace only tor for my nation you v ill find i e tl e strictest t enforcer of ol 01 e hence bence to 3 air 0 ir terms erford helt ker t th IN ord nord urd until 1 I 9 death march he held ills tation i at peace |