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Tecumseh ( / tɪˈkʌmsə, - si / tih-KUM-sə, -suh; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity.
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. [ 4][ 5] The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km ...
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [ note 2] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, United States of America, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America.
Battle of Mabila. (Oct 1540) Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. Mississippian culture. Death of chief Tuskaloosa, over 2,500 Indians and 200 Spaniards. Tiguex War. (winter 1540–41) Spanish conquistador. Puebloan.
The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), also known by other names, was an armed conflict for control of the Northwest Territory fought between the United States and a united group of Native American nations known today as the Northwestern Confederacy. The United States Army considers it the first of the American Indian Wars.
Nimwha, Shawnee diplomat, to George Croghan, 1768 In the decades before Pontiac's War, France and Great Britain participated in a series of wars in Europe that involved the French and Indian Wars in North America. The largest of these wars was the worldwide Seven Years' War, in which France lost New France in North America to Great Britain. Most fighting in the North American theater of the ...
The number of Indian combatants in the war is disputed with estimates ranging from 900 up to 4,000 warriors. [28] The seven bands of the Lakota Sioux in the 1870s numbered perhaps 15,000 men, women, and children, but most of them were living on the Great Sioux Reservation and were noncombatants.
Tecumseh's confederacy. Tecumseh's confederacy was a confederation of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of North America which formed during the early 19th century around the teaching of Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa. [ 2] The confederation grew over several years and came to include several thousand Native American warriors.