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Battle of Tippecanoe

Battle Ground · Indiana

Estimated casualties

130 – 200estimated dead

U.S. ~62 killed and ~120 wounded; Native losses uncertain, roughly 50 or more.

SOURCEWikipedia: Battle of Tippecanoe

On 7 November 1811, Indiana Territory governor William Henry Harrison repelled a dawn attack by Native forces of Tecumseh's confederacy under Tenskwatawa (the Prophet) near Prophetstown, then burned the town; the battle weakened the confederacy and fed into the War of 1812.

Belligerents2

  • United States
  • Tecumseh's Confederacy

ON THE MAPUnited States (1804)

Conflict graph

PART OFTecumseh's War

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of Tippecanoe
  2. Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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