Tecumseh

[ ti-kuhm-suh ]

noun

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

Tecumseh

/ tɪˈkʌmsə /

noun

1. Tecumseh?17681813MShawnee IndianPOLITICS: tribal leader ?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

Tecumseh

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.

Example Sentences

“As Americans, we live with the consequences of the Civil War whether we know it or not,” Fleischer said, “and if you remove William Tecumseh Sherman from history the war could have ended very differently.”

From Seattle Times

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

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

Peck puts their story in the context of Black ownership, opening with the 1865 encounter between Union general William Tecumseh Sherman and 20 Black ministers in Georgia.

From Seattle Times

“He had phrases in there about, for example, Sherman marching through Georgia,” Norton said, a reference to Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman burning most of Atlanta during the Civil War.

From Seattle Times