f the Winnebagos--which was Wisconsin.

Delawares, Senecas, Chief Crane's Wyandots and the majority of the
Shawnees themselves refused to rise against the Americans. The other
Indians waited for stronger signs. But they did not need to wait long.

Tecumseh's star became fixed in the sky--he won the first battle of the
war and won it for the British. Commanding seventy Indians and forty
soldiers he whipped an American force at Brownstown.

In a second battle there, although the Americans were not captured it
was Tecumseh again who held his position longest. As reward, he was
promoted to brigadier general in the army of the king.

The Americans surrendered Michilimackinac. The American big chief,
General Hull, retreated out of Canada.

Runners from Brigadier General Tecumseh spread the news. The Indians
waited no longer. The Potawatomis rose, the Miamis rose, the Ottawas
and Winnebagos and Kickapoos rose. Sioux of Minnesota and Sacs of
Illinois hastened forward. General Tecumseh ruled.

To the Miamis and Winnebagos was assigned the task of taking Fort
Harrison near present Terre Haute of Indiana; to the Potawatomis and
Ottawas, aided by Tecumseh and some English, was assigned the task of
taking Fort Wayne.

But the Shooting Star's old foe, William Henry Harrison, was out upon
the war trail again. He lifted the siege of Fort Wayne. The attack
upon Fort Harrison also failed. From now on he and Tecumseh fought
their fight, to a finish.

This fall and winter of 1812 Tecumseh traveled once more. From Canada
he journeyed south across a thousand miles of forest, prairie and
waters clear to the Indians of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama. He did
not now come with word from any Prophet, to make the red people one
nation and a better nation.

He came as a British officer, to bid the Southern Indians join the
king's standard, and fight the Americans into the sea while he and the
English did the same work in the north.

He distributed bundles of red sticks for them to count--one stick a
day. With the last stick, they were to strike.

The Creeks and Cherokees were persuaded, and strike they did. A bloody
trail they made, which many rains did not wash clean.

Back to the war in the spring of 1813, Tecumseh brought into camp six
hundred fresh warriors from the Wabash. Now two thousand fighting men
obeyed his orders alone. His command frequently out-numbered the
British command. He was not a general in name