hat he would go no farther into Canada. This
was British soil, not Indian soil. Unless the Americans were whipped
and the trail home was opened, how were his Indians ever to help the
other Indians fight?

On the morning of the next day, October 5, 1813, he and General Proctor
made their battle plans.

"Shall we fight the Americans, father?" asked Sagaunash, or Billy
Caldwell. He was half English and half Potawatomi, and acted as
Tecumseh's secretary, to translate Shawnee into French or English.

Tecumseh was gloomy. He had no faith in the British general.

"Yes, my son. Before the sun sets we shall be in the enemy's smoke.
Go. You are wanted by Proctor. I will never see you again."

He posted his men. Then he addressed his chiefs.

"Brother warriors! We are about to enter a fight from which I shall
not come out. My body will remain." He handed his sword and belt to a
friend.

"When my son becomes a great warrior, and able to use a sword, give him
this."

Then Tecumseh stripped off his red uniform coat, bearing the gold
epaulets of a British brigadier general. He was to fight as an
ordinary Indian, in buckskin hunting-shirt.

There were nine hundred British soldiers and one thousand Indians.
They were well stationed. The left flank, British, was protected by
the deep Thames River; the right flank, Indian, was protected by a soft
swamp. The Americans of General Harrison came on. They numbered three
thousand: one hundred and twenty United States regulars, the rest
Kentucky volunteer infantry with one regiment of mounted riflemen under
bold Colonel Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky.

Tecumseh would have given a great deal to whip this doughty General
Harrison who had come out of his "hole" at last. There were old scores
between them. But, as Between-the-logs had warned, "a ground-hog is a
very difficult animal."

General William Henry Harrison of Virginia knew how to fight when in
his "hole," or fort--and he knew how to fight when out of his "hole,"
and he knew Indian fighting as well as white fighting.

Here were three brigadier generals--Harrison, Tecumseh, and Proctor.

But the battle was soon over. General Proctor had made the mistake of
posting his soldiers in open order. General Harrison's eye was quick
to note the weakness. He let the Indians alone, for a few minutes, and
sent the right of the mounted backwoodsmen in a charge against the
British.

The horses broke clear through, whe