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Tecumseh Portrait

Tecumseh confronts William Henry Harrison

"Tecumseh"—from John Lossing's engraving in wood after a pencil sketch by Pierre Le Dru taken about 1808.

A bronze statue of Tecumseh stands in front of the U.S. Naval Academy.

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