Just stumbled across Eric Flint's The Rivers of War in a bookstore. The synopsis talks about Tecumseh and The Prophet sucessfully bringing together all of the Indian tribes against the US in the War of 1812. Its not a twist I usually see in alternate history (of course alternate history outside of the Civil War and WWII are rare enough) and immediately thought of Alvin. Anyone read it?
Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
great man from the book I read about the war of 1812 but wat i want to know is was he related however distantly to Gen. Sherman?
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
No relation between Tecumseh and William Tecumseh Sherman. In a perverse way, even as we were fighting Tecumseh, we honored him as the noblest and cleverest of our enemies. He was regarded as a hero, rather the way Saladin was during the Crusades - even by his enemies. So Sherman was named after him, but there was no blood relation.
Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
okay thanks, I remember a scene where Tecumseh was speaking to one the american generals trying to get his land and they were sitting on a bench and he kept shifting towards him and the general kept shifting away until he was almost falling off, enraged he said your pushing me off the bench and tecumseh replied "Your pushing us off our land"
Posted by Eck (Member # 8324) on :
Tecumseh related to William Tecumseh Sherman..pretty funny that one.
There is belief that had Tecumseh organized all of the Native American tribes that the Europeans settlers would have never made it acrossed the Mississippi and could have posssibly been pushed back beyond the Appalachians.
I do like the idea of a book that discusses what would have happened had he been successful. Thanks for the book drop, think I will pick it up.
Hopefully Mr. Flint does justice for the Panther Across the Sky.