Battle of Tippecanoe

November 7, 1811

While the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa's confederacy slept, William Henry Harrison's militia attacked at dawn on the Wabash. The native village was burned; Tecumseh, away recruiting, came home to ashes. Harrison would ride the victory to the White House. Tecumseh would fight on, and die, in British service. His dream of a pan-Indian confederacy died with him at the Thames in 1813, and the frontier moved west.