Tecumtha was the great Shawnee leader, chief, and brigadier general in the British Army by appointment of General Sir Isaac Brock in 1812. Born in March 1768 at the Great Springs, a few arrow flights south-east of Old Chillicothe, he was killed on October 5, 1813, while leading Shawnee warriors against American forces at the Battle of the Thames, Chetham, Province of Ontario, Canada. This account comes from Shawnee history, faithfully preserved by the historians of the Shawnee Nation and authorized by the Absentee Shawnee Business Committee.