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David DeWitt

David DeWitt

COMMENTARY

Tecumseh and the war for the Northwest Territory

By: - October 10, 2022

Last week was the 209th anniversary of the killing in battle of Ohio Shawnee chief Tecumseh, born near Chillicothe in 1768. His efforts to build a permanent territory for a confederacy of Indigenous American tribes, bordered by the Great Lakes in the north, the Ohio River in the east and south, and the Mississippi River […]