The Write Team Daily: "Tecumseh's Last Alliance"

The Write Team Podcast · Oct 5, 2026 · 42m

THE BATTLE OF THE THAMES | October 5, 1813

Upper Canada

Along the muddy banks of the Thames River in Upper Canada, an American army was closing in.

British troops were exhausted. Supplies were disappearing. Native warriors had watched their allies retreat again and again.

And among them stood Tecumseh.

For years, the Shawnee leader had worked to unite Native nations against American expansion. Now, allied with the British during the War of 1812, he faced an American force led by William Henry Harrison.

The British line collapsed quickly.

Tecumseh and his warriors kept fighting.

Then Tecumseh…