The Miami Indian name for a river in Indiana, meaning "buffalo fish place." It was also the name of a noted village site on the west bank of the Wabash River just below the mouth of the Tippecanoe River in the same state. The village was first occupied by the Miami and later the Shawnee Indians.
It was here on November 7, 1811, that the Shawnee and their allies led by Tenskwatawa, "The Prophet," suffered one of their worst defeats by the United States troops, under General William Henry Harrison.
General Harrison won the name "Old Tippecanoe," and in the 1840 presidential campaign, with John Tyler as his running mate, he was swept into office with the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too."
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