Tecumseh
an American Indian; born near Springfield, O., about 1768; first appeared in a fight with Kentucky troops on Mad river in 1788. In 1805, with his brother, Ellskwatawa, he projected the union of all the western Indians against the whites, His defeat in the battle of Tippecanoe ruined these plans, but he continued his efforts among the southern tribes, and ultimately succeeded in inciting the Creek Nation to insurrection. He then joined the English, and commanded the Indian allies in the campaigns of 1812-1813. He was in the action of Raisin river, and after being wounded at Maguaga was made a Brigadier-General in the royal army. He led 2,000 warriors in the siege of Fort Meigs, where he saved the American prisoners from massacre; and commanded the right wing under General Proctor in the battle of the Thames, Canada, where his Indians were driven back and he himself killed, Oct. 5, 1813.
TEFFT TE DEUM ("Te Deum laudamus," "We praise thee, O God"), a well-known Latin hymn of the Western Church-so called from its first words-sung at the end of matins on all feasts except Innocents' Day, and on all Sundays except during penitential seasons. The hymn is one of the most simple, and at the same time most solemn and majestic, in the whole range of Latin hymnology. Its authorship is uncertain. The chronicle of Bishop Datius of Milan (died about 552), which is both unauthentic and worthless, describes the "Te Deum" as the joint production of St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, into which they both burst forth by a common inspiration on_occasion of the baptism of Augustine. Hence the "Te Deum" is commonly called the "Ambrosian Hymn." The first actual reference to it is in the rule of Cæsarius of Arles, who was made a bishop in 502, and it is at any rate certain that it arose as early as the 5th century, and in its modern form was used by Hincmar of Rheims in the 9th century. It is ascribed by some authorities to Hilary of Arles, by others to some disciple of Cassian of Marseilles, but in no case is the evidence at all satisfactory. The hymn in its current form consists of 29 verses; the first 21 verses are uniform in the four oldest versions current, and it seems probable that verses 1-10 were a Greek hymn dating back to the 2d century, though Bishop John Wordsworth in Julian's "Dictionary" thinks verses 7-9 are a reminiscence of Cyprian, not vice versa, and that the Greek form of verses 1-10 is a translation from the Latin, not an original composition. In the Anglican morning prayer it follows the first Lesson, except when the Benedicite is preferred as its alternative. It is frequently used also in the services of both Presbyterian and Congregational Churches, and there are more than 20 metrical renderings of it in English hymnology.