Tecumseh (Shawnee: Tekamthi) organized a multi-tribal resistance to U.S. incursion among Indian nations from the Great Lakes to Georgia, 1805-1811. He was not present when his brother Tenskwatawa (The Prophet) engaged William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe on Nov. 7, 1811, which effectively ended his resistance movement. Siding with the British during the War of 1812, he assisted in the capture of Detroit in 1812. Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Sioux, and Potawatomi warriors from Wisconsin joined him in opposing the Americans during the War of 1812. Tecumseh died at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, defending his positions while the British regulars fled.

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[Source: Thrapp, Dan L., Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Volume III, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1988; Grignon, Augustin. "Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin." Wisconsin Historical Collections 3: 195-295.Offered as a correction for your entry under that name.THRAPP, Dan L., Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Volume III, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1988.Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume V (1801 to 1820), University of Toronto Press, 1983.]