Show li tories or of f J G GREAT EA T 1 T A wm D by E ELMO lj 0 SCOTT CO WATSON 1022 yemeni LOin union WARRIOR TECUMSEH BECAME A BRITISH GENERAL IN X THE year 1768 wife of chief of the shawnees gave birth to triplets one of them Tecum tha or tecumseh the shoot ing star a name strangely prophetic of his meteoric career was desti destinon nod to bo be called by many historians the greatest american indian tecumseh distinguished himself in battle early although he was a groat great warrior he be was not a cruel one and due to his influence the Shawne shawneen ea gm ni dually gave up the practice of torturing captives he was a proud chieftain too at a council with gen william wililam liam henry harrison governor of indiana in 1810 the interpreter handed tecumseh a chair w with ath the remark your tour father requests you to take chair my father the sun Is toy MY father and the tha earth Is my mother and I 1 will rest upon her bosom replied tecumseh haughtily as he took his bis place among his warriors on the ground tecumseh had coule come to protest against the cession of shawnee lands un under der the treaty of fort wayne but his objections gained him nothing he travelled throughout the middle west gaining recruits tor for his confederation er era tion Ws his scheme failed while he was absent hla his brother brothel the loudmouthed loud mouthed prophet rashly precipitated an attack upon harrison han lson and the battle of tippecanoe in 1811 ended dream forever ile he immediately enlisted in the service of the british who at the outbreak of the war of 1812 made him a brigadier I 1 general once while he discovered some of his indians butchering helpless captives he hotly rebuked general proctor for allowing it sir replied the go general your tour indians could not be restrained rest rallied Be gonel 1 shouted tecumseh Tecum seb you yon are not fit to command go home and put on petticoats later in the campaign when the cowardly proctor continued retreating tecumseh forced him to make mahe a stand on the thames river in Ou ontario tarlo ile he seems to have had a presentiment of death for he discarded his bis generals gene rala uniform and west went into the battle wearing the deerskin garb of a shawnee warrior he was killed in that battle ills his had been the career of a shooting star truly from the mad river la in ohio his birthplace to the thames it had been onty 45 years but in that short time tecumseh made his place in history |