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Bookmark or Share- 1800-1860: Religion: Chronology - Encyclopedia.comTenskwatawa leaves Greenville, in western Ohio, and moves with his followers to Prophetstown, or Tippecanoe, a site offered to him by the Kickapoos and Potawatomis. 1809 Thomas Campbell withdraws from the Presbyterians and forms the nondenominational Christian Association of Washington ( Pennsylvania ).
- Tecumseh, Death of | Encyclopedia.comIn 1808 Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa again relocated their village, this time to the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers, which became known as Prophetstown. Tecumseh clashed with Indiana Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison (1773 – 1841) over the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne , which ceded yet more traditional lands.
- American Indian Resistance to White ExpansionAs in the 1790s, the effort to create an Indian confederacy ended in war. In 1811 an army led by William Henry Harrison marched against Prophets-town, Tenskwatawa's village, while Tecumseh was away. In the Battle of Tippecanoe, the prophet's followers ambushed the Americans as they camped near the village; but Harrison's troops drove the ...
- Battle Of Tippecanoe 1811 | Encyclopedia.comTIPPECANOE, BATTLE OF (7 November 1811). In response to pressure from white settlers, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh organized a confederacy of Native American tribes in the Indiana and Michigan territories. The crisis came in the summer of 1811, when Tecumseh, after renewing his demands on Gen. William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana ...
- Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa - Encyclopedia.comTecumseh and Lalawethika both were born in a Shawnee village in what is now western Ohio . Tecumseh was born in 1768 and Lalawethika was born in 1775. Their father was a respected Shawnee war chief. At the time of Tecumseh and Lalawethika's early childhood, whites were arriving in Shawnee land in increasing numbers, clearing and fencing the ...
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