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Figure Ohio Country / Northwest Territory conqueror

Tecumseh

1768 CE – 1813 CE · 45 years

The Shawnee war chief who forged a confederacy of thirty nations from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico — and whose death at the Battle of the Thames ended Native resistance east of the Mississippi forever.

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