This memorial was unveiled in memory of Brigadier General Tecumseh.
Born in March 1768 in the area of present-day Ohio, Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief and warrior. He became the primary leader of a large, multi-tribal confederacy, who envisioned an independent native nation east of the Mississippi. While attempting to recruit more allies among the southern US tribes, his confederacy and US government troops engaged in a battle that would see the main settlement of his confederacy (located just north of Lafayette, Indiana) captured and burned.
Tecumseh and his confederacy continued to fight the Americans after forming an alliance with Great Britain in the War of 1812. During the war, Tecumseh's confederacy helped in the capture of Fort Detroit. However, after US naval forces took control of Lake Erie in 1813, the British and their native allies retreated into Upper Canada. On 5 October 1813, the American forces engaged the British and their allies at the Battle of the Thames during which Tecumseh was killed.
