tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112053702773091232.post6792184363163503596..comments2023-03-23T08:19:04.100-05:00Comments on Kingdom Of Fife: War of 1812 Road Trip, Day 4 . . . Toledo Area Merkin J. Pus-Tarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667489495522103945noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112053702773091232.post-77860688944911634412012-09-06T22:33:21.449-05:002012-09-06T22:33:21.449-05:00I think that it is interesting that Tecumseh is to...I think that it is interesting that Tecumseh is today viewed universally as being very upstanding . . . especially in contrast to someone like Harrison. Even long ago Tecumseh commanded respect from most all involved. However, that did not hold for all, as you will see in a future post. Merkin J. Pus-Tarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667489495522103945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112053702773091232.post-82411264895084156872012-09-06T19:32:08.096-05:002012-09-06T19:32:08.096-05:00Sorry, I wasn't trying to be confrontational, ...Sorry, I wasn't trying to be confrontational, I mainly used it as an excuse to trot out the quote which I find interesting.<br />SKDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112053702773091232.post-15340376990799667042012-09-06T17:57:31.837-05:002012-09-06T17:57:31.837-05:00Are we gonna play this game? There were multiple ...Are we gonna play this game? There were multiple accounts of who killed Tecumseh, AND there were multiple accounts of what happened to his corpse. One says Native Americans under his command carried his body off to an undisclosed place and buried him. Another story says the old long-hunter Simon Kenton (who was one of the few men on the US side who could actually identify Tecumseh)intentionally misidentified the corpse, so a mutilation as you described could not happen. And so forth . . . No one will ever know what happened to him.Merkin J. Pus-Tarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667489495522103945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112053702773091232.post-42695935920341348912012-09-06T15:54:34.404-05:002012-09-06T15:54:34.404-05:00I was referencing this from Hickey's The War o...I was referencing this from Hickey's The War of 1812, "The Americans took clothing, hair, and even patches of skin from Tecumseh's body as souvenirs. 'I [helped] kill Tecumseh and [helped] skin him,' a veteran of the campaign recalled a half century later, 'and brot Two pieces of his yellow hide home with me to my Mother & Sweet Harts.'"<br /><br />There is also this description of Proctor by Tecumseh who compares him to "a fat animal, that carries its tail upon its back, but when affrighted . . . drops it between his legs and runs off."<br />SKDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112053702773091232.post-69931347825306663582012-09-06T09:53:26.408-05:002012-09-06T09:53:26.408-05:00Point taken, but I take exception to your statemen...Point taken, but I take exception to your statement about "bits of his abused corpse scattered hither and yon." No one knows what happened to the body of Tecumseh. Some say that his allies took his body away and buried it. But no one knows for sure. Merkin J. Pus-Tarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667489495522103945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112053702773091232.post-2989610628788141572012-09-06T05:24:26.108-05:002012-09-06T05:24:26.108-05:00Not that I know any better, but mainly because I&#...Not that I know any better, but mainly because I'm difficult, I must question the characterization of Tecumseh's motivation, that is, he acted because he feared reprisals. My understanding is that his ardor for humane treatment of prisoners was constitutional not pragmatic. Not that it did him any good anyway, what with bits of his abused corpse scattered hither and yon.<br />Screamin' Killer DavisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com