outrages and protecting prisoners from massacre, at one time saving the
lives ol four hundred American prisoners who had been taken in ambush near Fort
Meigs and were unable to make longer resistance, lb- was wounded at Maguagua,
where nearly four hundred were killed and wounded on both sides, lie covered
the British retreat after the battle of Lake Erie, and, refusing to retreat farther,
compelled the British General Proctoi to make a stand at the Thames river. Al st
the whole force of the American attack fell on Tecumtha's division. Early in the
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engagement he was shot through the arm, but continued to fight desperately until
he received a bullet in the head and fell dead, surrounded by the bodies of 120 of
his slain warriors. The services of Tecumthaand his Indians to the British cause
have been recognized by an English historian, who says, "but for them it is proba-
ble we should not now have a Canada." Authorities: Drake, Indians, ed. 1880;
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1N94; Eggleston, Tecumseh and the
Shaw nee Prophet.
(34) Fort Minis Massacre, 1813 (p. 89): Fort Minis, so called from an old Indian
trader on whose lands it was built, was a stockade fort erected in the summer of 1813
for the protection of the settlers in what was known as the Tensaw district, and was
situated on Tensaw lake. Alabama, one mile east of Alabama river and about forty
miles above Mobile. It was garrisoned by about 200 volunteer troops under Major
Daniel Beaslev, with refugees from the neighboring settlement, making a total at
the time of its