Note 170 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 4)

The people of Indiana Territory believed the Indian chief Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, were stirring up a general Indian war; and, wishing to anticipate them, Governor William H. Harrison led an attack on the Indian village at the confluence of Tippecanoe Creek and the Wabash River, November 7, 1811. The Indians were driven back and the village burned, but Tecumseh continued plotting, and took ample revenge during the War of 1812–15. See Pirtle, Battle of Tippecanoe, Filson Club Publications, xv.—Ed.