During the War of 1812, the British wanted the Indians between the 
Ohio River and the border of Upper Canada to serve as a buffer 
against American encroachments.  Tecumseh participated in most of 
the British campaigns.  In January 1813, U.S. forces occupied a 
vulnerable position on the River Raisin, and were attacked by 
combined British and Indian forces.  Losses on the American side, 
mostly captured, were as high as 800, but thirty-three of the 
wounded prisoners were killed by the Indians.  Rumors quickly 
exaggerated the numbers killed, and the new battle cry for the U.S. 
troops became "Remember the Raisin."  At the battle of the Thames, 
William Henry Harrison led an army of five thousand and defeated 
the remaining British and Indian forces in western Ontario, killing 
Tecumseh in the midst of the fighting (shown here).  Tecumseh's 
death dignified the end of Indian military power in the Northwest 
Territory and dissolved any substantial resistance to settlement 
between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.