A conflict between US forces and Shawnee, fought near the Wabash River 240 km (150 miles) north of Vincennes. Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory engineered a conflict with the British‐supported Native American confederacy of the Shawnee chiefs Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet Tenskwatawa in order to end Native American resistance to westward US expansion. In the resulting skirmish, Harrison sustained considerable losses but drove away the Native Americans. Tippecanoe was hailed as a major victory, but the British and Native American threat to the north‐west frontier was not destroyed until Tecumseh fell in the Battle of the Thames two years later.