William Tecumseh Sherman: Did you mean...?

The Siege of Fort Meigs (28 April to 9 May 1813) was a major engagement on the northwestern frontier of the War of 1812. It saw a US army under Major General William Henry Harrison, holed up in the hastily built Fort Meigs...

The meeting of British General Isaac Brock and Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh on the eve of the Siege of Detroit (August 1812) is an iconic event in Canadian folklore. Illustration by Charles William Jefferys, first...

William Bradford (l. 1590-1657 CE) was one of the leading members of the congregation of pilgrims who came to North America aboard the Mayflower, a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and the second governor of the Plymouth Colony...

Portrait of Tecumtha (c. 1808), platinum print after a watercolor portrait of Tecumseh (1778-1813), a Shawnee chief and leader, by Benson John Lossing, 1915. Toronto Public Library, Canada.

Tecumseh's death at the Battle of the Thames (5 October 1813), lithograph by N. Currier, 1846. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

William "Box" Peel Jones was an enslaved African American who, in 1859, was shipped in a box from an unknown location to the home of the abolitionist William Still...

William Brewster (l. 1568-1644 CE) was an elder of the Leiden congregation of separatists (later known as pilgrims) and their spiritual leader while onboard the Mayflower and later after the establishment of the Plymouth Colony...

William Barret Travis (1809 to 1836) is best known as the commander of the Alamo during the 13-day siege (23 February to 6 March 1836), dying in the Battle of the Alamo on 6 March at the age of 26...

A photograph showing US-made Sherman tanks of the British Eight Army during the Second Battle of El Alamein (Oct-Nov 1942) in the Western Desert Campaigns (June 1940 to January 1943) in North Africa. (Imperial War Museums...

Tecumseh and General Isaac Brock at the surrender of Fort Detroit. Though their partnership is iconic in the annals of Canadian folklore, their capture of Detroit is the only instance of them working together. Illustration...