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The Battle of the Thames / ˈ t ɛ m z /, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies. It took place on October 5, 1813, in Upper Canada , near Chatham .
Early on the morning of December 15, 1813, a mixed group of men from the Loyal Kent Volunteers, Provincial Dragoons, Middlesex Militia, and Norfolk Militia scaled the icy banks of the Thames River to advance on a group of soldiers from the 26th U.S. Infantry who had taken up a post in the house of Thomas McCrae, a Captain in the 1st Kent Militia. [3]
Battle of Moraviantown, better known as Battle of the Thames; Moravian 47, Ontario, home of The Moraviantown Delaware Nation; Munsee language, spoken only on the Moraviantown Reserve in Ontario, Canada by five living people; Christian Munsee, also known as the Moravian Munsee
During the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States, the Battle of the Thames took place near the community. The Shawnee leader Tecumseh, an ally of the United Kingdom, was killed by invading United States forces. Following the battle, before the US cavalry left the area, it burned the entire Christian Munsee community to the ground.
The war lasted for two more years, until 1813, when Tecumseh and his second-in-command, Roundhead, died fighting General / Governor William Henry Harrison's Army of the Northwest of the United States Army, at the Battle of Moraviantown (a.k.a. Battle of the Thames) in October 1813, further north across the border in Upper Canada, of British ...
Many Potawatomi joined with Tecumseh in support of the British as they retreated from Detroit into the southern Canada. They were defeated at the Battle of the Thames (October 5, 1813). Main Poc had remained near Detroit, planning to attack Governor Harrison's supply columns.
The following year he led an unsuccessful campaign against the United States in Ohio and Indiana. When U.S. naval forces took control of Lake Erie in 1813, Tecumseh reluctantly retreated with the British into Upper Canada, where American forces engaged them at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, in which Tecumseh was killed. His death ...
"Tecumseh Stone", Fort Malden National Historic Site Turtle-shell Tecumseh Monument at the site of the Battle of the Thames Tecumseh is honored in Canada as a hero and military commander who played a major role in Canada's successful repulsion of an American invasion in the War of 1812, which, among other things, eventually led to Canada's nationhood in 1867 with the British North America Act.