Post by griffin on Apr 1, 2009 21:00:51 GMT -5
If you have not read this book, you are missing a great work on the war of 1812.
I was surprised he went into so much before and after detail. He starts with Washington and goes all the way to almost the Civil War..
The chapter on Tecumseh was interesting. He states that Tecumseh's name was derived from a ritual in which the brave has a hallucination and from this, his name is given.. In Tecumseh's case, he saw a comet in the shape of a panther shooting across the sky.
I understood that the name was given from an observation made just after the birth??
books.google.com/books?id=ywM56b9z49sC&dq=union+1812&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=2hrUSbSVM57WlQeZvpDiDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP1,M1
I was surprised he went into so much before and after detail. He starts with Washington and goes all the way to almost the Civil War..
The chapter on Tecumseh was interesting. He states that Tecumseh's name was derived from a ritual in which the brave has a hallucination and from this, his name is given.. In Tecumseh's case, he saw a comet in the shape of a panther shooting across the sky.
I understood that the name was given from an observation made just after the birth??
books.google.com/books?id=ywM56b9z49sC&dq=union+1812&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=2hrUSbSVM57WlQeZvpDiDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP1,M1