Tecumseh A Living Legend With Short Lifetime Summary

Name: Nghi Nguyen
History 120 #86931 online course
Dec 9th fall 2014
Instructor Todd Menzing
TECUMSEH, a Living Legend with Short Lifetime The book “Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership” by R. David Edmunds, gives us a closer and better view into the period of 1680’s to the War of 1812. The book mainly focuses on Tecumseh, who was a very special Shawnee warrior. According to Edmunds, at first the Shawnee lived in piece with the Americans, but after the white people broke the promise, took military actions, they started to against and fight back to the Americans (Tecumseh p36). However, to be heaven known what exactly happened year by year in his lifetime, we also need the book names “The American People Creating a Nation and a Society”

This was showed by the fact that the President Washington sent out a federal army, about 13000 men, led by Anthony Wayne. It also personally affects to Tecumseh. He lost another family member, Sauwauseekau, the third child in his family, when he was just 32 years old. Therefore, we could say that his father and his two older brothers were killed by the Long Knives. During this time, after the deaths of his family members, when American prepared for the war, Tecumseh manipulated most of his winter 1794 for hunting. No long after, the Indians made their signs on the Treaty of Greenville, called the Southern two third of Ohio. Its consequence is a boundary between the Native American lands and the settlers’ lands. Although Tecumseh was revealed as a young war chief at that time, he refused to interfere in the Treaty of Greenville. (Resources: Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership pages 38, 39; the American People Creating a Nation and a Society page

He finally got to his most memorable time in his life, The War of 1812. Wars, Battles were the cause of the breaking out between Americans and British. And certainly, Tecumseh chose to side with the British. He led and drove the remnant Indians from the confederation into an alliance of the British. According to Nash, the War of 1812 is the one that took most Americans’ lives. Unfortunately, in the Battle of Thames 1813, known as the significant American victory, the British’s army and the Indians were defeated, and lost high quantity of troop. On October 1813, Tecumseh, a legend warrior, the Indian captain, was killed on the Thames River. Because of losing the head control, all surviving cleared off and withdrew from the alliance. (Resources: Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership pages 194, 196, 197, 198; the American People creating a Nation and a Society pages 248, 249,