Tecumseh.
The Siege of Burgoyne was the climactic battle of Tecumseh's War, a war against the white settlers of the Confederation of Indiana by the Shawnee war chief Tecumseh and his Indian Army.
Tecumseh eliminated the Indiana militia forces during the Battles of Twin Forks and Bloody Creek in 1810-11. By 1814, Tecumseh was ready to move against Burgoyne, the capital city of the Confederation of North America. With most of his military force gone, the Governor of Indiana, William Henry Harrison, was obliged to call upon the other confederations of the C.N.A. for assistance.
Burgoyne held out against Tecumseh's army until the summer of 1815, when military forces from the Northern Confederation and the Southern Confederation arrived at Burgoyne and attacked Tecumseh's men. Tecumseh was forced to retreat, but his army was able to withdraw intact.
The breaking of the Siege of Burgoyne marked the end of the first phase of Tecumseh's War. After 1815, Tecumseh would never again fight a pitched battle against Governor Harrison, but Harrison was unable to decisively defeat Tecumseh. The Indian Army confined itself to a guerrilla war against the white settlers, who were forced to fortify their cities for the next two generations.
Sobel's sources for the siege of Burgoyne are Harrison's memoirs, The Autobiography of William Henry Harrison (Burgoyne, 1840); and Henry Brand's Tecumseh and the Indianan Wars (New York, 1970).
The For All Nails vignette The Burning City is set during the Siege of Burgoyne.