We all ready have a statue of the British Major General Isaac Brock at Queenston Heights and major activities are underway in Canada to commemorate the conflict, while in the U. The whole affair was more of a skirmish than a war, but the Treaty of Ghent did have a major impact on the future Canada, and if only for that, it is worth remembering. The irony of all this, is that Tecumseh, a true Canadian hero, is now appropriated by the Americans who have made him into one of their heroes, naming several warships Tecumseh, and the U.
Sad to say, the peace of Ghent August left the borders essentially as they were prior to the war — a draw, except for the Indians. One thing that really helped shape the life of Tecumseh was his brother Tenskwatawa, the Prophet. Most of Tecumseh's life was spent trying to make a gathering of tribes a reality. He set up a center of government and political power in Tippecanoe. Tippecanoe became not only a center for Indian confederacy, but also a training center for the Indian warriors.
The settlers grew concerned about the power that Tecumseh was amassing around himself and his cause. They looked to the US government to deal with the problem. Seeing so many Indians together worried the governor of the Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison , so he sent an army to Prophetstown.
When he came back, he found the town destroyed and he gave up his vision of a confederacy with the settlers. Under the climate of expansion into the western part of the country, Tecumseh felt there could be no trust with the white man who did not care for being honest and true in their dealings, but only about gaining land for themselves.
Following the destruction of Tippecanoe, Tecumseh and his warriors joined the forces with the British during the War of in hopes that they would return the land to the Indians if they won. Tecumseh was the first Indian to serve at the rank of General in the British Army. Tecumseh fought as a Brigadier General during the War and when the British were defeated and turned tail to Canada, Tecumseh begged them not to give up the fight.
At the start of the Battle of the Thames in , the British retreated and left the Indians to fight on their own. Finding no aid in their leadership, Tecumseh and his men decided to fight the Americans without the help of the British. Tecumseh died in battle at Chatham, Ontario.
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Native Americans never went to school. Instead they would be trained to either fight or help the village in some way. Tecumseh was supposed to fight. Chiksika taught Tecumseh how to fight. These fraternizations aroused deep suspicion in the United States, and American officials "eagerly embraced a convenient paranoia," as Tecumseh's biographer John Sugden put it. With the threat of war, Tecumseh moved his band to the headwaters of the Mississinewa, five kilometres from Tippecanoe.
The move was resented by the local Miamis and Delawares. The impressive new Shawnee village, with houses, was called Prophetstown by the Whites for Tecumseh's brother, who continued preaching and who changed his name to Tenskwatawa , meaning Open Door. In an unknown Tecumseh made his first visit to Canada at Fort Amherstburg later Fort Malden , Upper Canada , in the place of his better-known brother who had been invited by William Claus. He arrived 8 June. Tecumseh was not enthusiastic to take the king by the hand.
He was deeply distrustful of the British. Nevertheless, the two sides met and Tecumseh established himself with the redcoats and raised his standing among the First Nations. He had developed into a fiery orator with a clear message: the First Nations must stand together to save their land and cultures. This treaty vindicated Tecumseh and roused him to a fury. When he returned to talk to the British at Fort Amherstburg in he had changed his attitude.
He was ready for war and to throw in his lot with the British. Tecumseh's task of building an Aboriginal confederacy was enormous given the forbidding geographical distances, the sense of powerlessness of many of the tribes, the jealousy of the older chiefs, tribal rivalries, and communication in different languages. Even the different Algonquian groups could not understand one another without interpreters.
In summer Tecumseh undertook a strenuous journey west to the upper Mississippi, down the Illinois River to Peoria, to present-day Wisconsin, then to Missouri. In October he set out for Fort Amherstburg , arriving about 12 November. By now he was certain there would be war and asked for supplies. Tecumseh's efforts did not go unnoticed. William Henry Harrison wrote a tribute in "The implicit obedience and respect which the followers of Tecumseh pay to him is really astonishing, and more than any other circumstance bespeaks him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things.
Harrison met Tecumseh at Vincennes in July Tecumseh erred by telling Harrison that he would be absent until spring. In Tecumseh's absence, Harrison moved a force near Prophetstown at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers. The Prophet was unable to restrain his warriors and sniping between sentries escalated into a full-scale battle.
The warriors held their own but were forced to withdraw when they ran out of ammunition. Harrison followed the retreat and entered Prophetstown, finding it deserted. His men burned the town and destroyed the food supplies. Tecumseh's absence took him some 5, kilometres and when he returned to Prophetstown he saw the grim reality of the destruction: as he told the British later, "the bodies of my friends laying in the dust, and our villages burnt to the ground, and all our kettles carried off.
It was a devastating blow to the confederacy. On 18 June the United States declared war on Britain. Tecumseh went north to find the British strengthening the defences of Fort Amherstburg and saw an impressive number of soldiers there. Tecumseh brought about warriors from numerous tribes. General William Hull 's American forces occupied Sandwich on 12 July, but the general was fraught with doubt. On 17 July, far to the north, Captain Charles Roberts forced the surrender of Michilimackinac , which further unnerved Hull.
Tecumseh organized an ambush, routing them and inflicting the first casualties suffered by Americans in the War of On 5 August, Tecumseh confronted a far more numerous force south of Brownstown, killing In another attack he surprised Van Horne, killing 20 and wounding The ambushes at Brownstown were remarkable victories and weighed heavily on Hull's fragile frame of mind.
On 9 August , soldier and future writer John Richardson met Tecumseh, whom he was the first to call the real hero of the war. He described "that ardour of expression in his eye But Tecumseh chose the ground well and signalled the attack. Outgunned, the First Nations and British were forced to retreat and Tecumseh was wounded in the neck.
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