Thames

(tāmz,) one of the principal of English rivers, rises under the name of Isis on the borders of the cos. Wilts and Gloucester, and taking a devious but general E. course, flows through the cities of Westminster and London, until its embouchure,by a noble æstu ary below Green wich, into the German Ocean. Its length is 215 m. Thames, a river of Canada W. f, lowing into Lake St. Clair, after a S.W. course of 160 m. from its source in Oxford co. On its banks, Oct. 5, 1813, the Americans under Gen. Harrison gained a victory over an English force commanded by Gen. Proctor; in which battle Tecumseh (q. v.), the latter's Indian ally, was killed. [s. 890]