Word: tecumseh
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...covey of society ladies and a coachload of kings, queens and courtiers. There was the bland map of Healy's greatest patron-King Louis-Philippe of France. There were Andrew Jackson's maned, hard head and the bristle-bearded", tormented and flinty face of General William Tecumseh Sherman. There were Franz Liszt, Henry W. Longfellow, Jenny Lind...
...Critic. In Tecumseh, Mich., miffed by an "E" on his school report card, an eight-year-old tried to set fire to his school building...
...much the same way, another amateur-turned-general, Richard Mentor Johnson, licked Tecumseh by using cavalry as mounted infantry. In the Civil War, two Northern generals, John Buford and Phil Sheridan, carried Johnson's tactic still further; they broke completely with the flashy hit & run use of men on horseback, and employed cavalry as "a fast motorized column of infantry...
...nominated I will not accept; if elected I will not serve," wrote General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Republican convention of 1884, in the most emphatic, most widely quoted (and misquoted)* nolo episcopari on record. Last week Minnesota's outspoken Harold Stassen as emphatically announced his determination to win the Republican nomination in 1948. The formal Stassen bid, 18 months before convention time, was as unparalleled as General Sherman's brusque withdrawal...
...Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast's tutor. Among his friends and acquaintances: Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark...