Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief in the early 1800's tried to get the other tribes to unify to fight back against the newly formed american government , even enlisting the aid of the British in one battle , but the British chickened out, backed off, and Tecumseh and the other tribes could not withstand the onslaught of the american government . It is in the history books.
This is true. I'd like to add that the Native Americans under Tecumseh allied themselves to the British/Canadian forces in the War of 1812 and without them many of the British and Canadian wins may not have happened. When Sir Isaac Brock captured Fort Detroit in 1812 one of the main reasons the American commander William Hull surrendered the fort (with twice the amount of regulars than the British under Brock's Command, about 1000 to 2000) without a fight was his fear of the Natives that were aligned with Brock (Brock only had about 400 with him, but he made them continually walk in a line through the trees in sight of the fort so it appeared that there were more of them) would slaughter the inhabitants of the fort if they did not surrender.
The Battle of Queenston Heights, one of the most important Canadian victories of that first year of the war, also relied heavily on Native assistance, albeit local Native help from the Six Nations Natives that were living in the Grand River area of modern day southern Ontario. Natives under Joseph Brant (A Scots-Native) assisted the flanking manuvers of Major-General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who had taken command of the British regulars and Canadian militia after Sir Isaac Brock died trying to storm the heights after the Americans had captured the Redan Battery atop it.
The next year, in 1813, the Natives heavily assisted General Procter and his British forces at the Bombardment of Fort Meigs, although this Fort withstood the assault of the Royal Artillery (quite admirably! thousands of cannon balls hit the fort but it was built well into earthworks), there was still several victories on this campaign, such as the River Raisin and Frenchtown assualts. Unfortunately for Tecumseh and the Natives, this Campaign ended in the British withdrawing from the far numerically superior American forces under William Henry Harrison (later President of the United States) and his Kentucky Cavalry (1000 strong) (Populations of the US at this time was 8 million, population of Upper Canada was about 300,000, and 500,000 in Lower Canada, the US had virtually unlimited resources (just research the warship building and arms race on the Great Lakes at the time!) whereas the British were reluctant to send military assistance as they were heavily involved fighting Napoleon on the European continent, mainly Wellington's Campaign in Spain). The Battle Mr. Flipper was referring to was the Battle of Moraviantown (known as the Battle of the Thames to Americans) where the Kentucky Cavalry charged the British line, who hardly fired a volley before retreating under Procter's orders. Tecumseh and his Natives continued fighting the cavalry and American regulars in the woods by themselves - a lost cause. This was around November 5 1813 I believe, could have the month day wrong...?
It's truly sad both Brock and Tecumseh died, they both admired each other abundantly, and Brock had the British promise the Natives their own soveriegn nation (what was then the Michigan Territory, now the State of Michigan) should the British win the war. As we know, the Treaty of Ghent (Dec 24 1814) returned everything to the status quo prior to the war, and even though the British had captured Detroit (the only American city in history post-Revolution to be captured and occupied successfully; The British did capture Baltimore and Washington, but these were briefly near the end of the war) and the Michigan Territory was under their control, this was returned to American control.
