n of his person, which is
the common practice of the Indians. On the day of his death, he wore a
dressed deer skin coat and pantaloons. He was present in almost every
action against the Americans, from the period of Harmer's defeat to the
battle of the Thames--was several times wounded--and always sought the
hottest of the fire. On the 19th July, 1812, he pursued, near Sandwich,
a detachment of the American army under Colonel M'Arthur, and fired on
the rear guard. The colonel suddenly faced about his men and gave orders
for a volley, when all the Indians fell flat on the ground with the
exception of Tecumseh, who stood firm on his feet, with apparent
unconcern! After his fall, his lifeless corpse was viewed with great
interest by the American officers, who declared that the contour of his
features was majestic even in death. And notwithstanding, it is said by
an American writer, that "some of the Kentuckians disgraced themselves
by committing indignities on his dead body. He was scalped, and
_otherwise disfigured_." He left a son, who fought by his side when he
fell, and was then about seventeen years old. The prince regent, in
1814, as a mark of respect to the memory of the father, sent a handsome
sword as a present to the son. A nephew of Tecumseh and of the prophet,
(their sister's son,) who was highly valued by the Americans, was slain
in their service, in November, 1812, on the northern bank of the river
Miami. Having been brought up by the American general, Logan, he had
adopted that officer's name. He asserted that Tecumseh had in vain
sought to engage him in the war on the side of the British.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 118: "But General Sheaffe, like his superior, was a lover of
armistices, and after the action he concluded one of his own with the
American general, for which no reason, civil or military, was ever
assigned."--_Quarterly Review,_ April and July, 1822; article,
"Campaigns in the Canadas."]

[Footnote 119: From an American work,--Major-General James Wilkinson's
"Memoirs of my own Time," published in 1816.--ED.]

[Footnote 120: "But the most fatal and palpable error of the
commander-in-chief was his neglect to preserve that ascendancy on Lakes
Erie and Ontario which was actually enjoyed by the British at the
opening of the contest. The command of these lakes is so evidently an
object of primary consideration in the defence of the Canadas, that it
is perfectly inconceivable how any man in Sir George