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Fact: In the War of 1812, Tecumseh joined his cause with the British, recruiting warriors and helping to capture Detroit in August 1812.[1]
MLA Citation: Sayre, Gordon M. “Indian Chief as Tragic Hero.” Indian Chief as Tragic Hero, The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0807877018
Quotation: "In Tecumseh, the figure of the Indian resistance leader as hero reached its apogee. "[Tecumseh's] resistance to U.S. expansion, his alliance with the British in the War of 1812,...an officer under General William Hull (who fought ineffectively against Tecumseh at Detroit in 1812.)"
MLA Citation: “Tecumseh.” Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Encyclopædia Britannica Inc, 2020.
Quotation: "As the War of 1812 approached, Tecumseh began attempting to forge the growing Indian religious unity into political and military 498 / Tecumseh American Indian Biographies unity. Allying himself with the British, Tecumseh secured promises of military support from all the surrounding tribes and more distant tribes, including the Creeks."
MLA Citation: Markowitz, Harvey, and Carole A. Barrett. American Indian Biographies. Vol. Rev. ed, Salem Press, 2005. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.pstcc.edu:3443/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=140682&scope=site.
EISBN: 9781587653124
Quotation: "Seeing the approach of war (the War of 1812) between the Americans and British, Tecumseh assembled his followers and joined the British forces at Fort Malden on the Canadian side of the Detroit River. There he brought together perhaps the most formidable force ever commanded by a North American Indian, an accomplishment that was a decisive factor in the capture of Detroit and of 2,500 U.S. soldiers (1812)."
- ^ Sayre, Gordon M. (2005). The Indian chief as tragic hero : native resistance and the literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-7701-8. OCLC 69678095.