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The Tippecanoe River (/ ˌtɪpikəˈnuː / TIP-ee-kə-NOO) is a gentle, 182-mile-long (293 km) [1] river in the Central Corn Belt Plains ecoregion in northern Indiana. It flows from Crooked Lake in Noble County to the Wabash River near what is now Battle Ground, about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Lafayette. The name "Tippecanoe" was derived ...
Little River, Eel River, Tippecanoe River, Vermilion River, Little Vermilion River, Embarras River, Little Wabash River. The Wabash River / ˈwɔːbæʃ / (French: Ouabache) is a 503-mile-long (810 km) [ 2 ] river that drains most of the state of Indiana, and a significant part of Illinois, in the United States.
The Battle of Tippecanoe (/ ˌ t ɪ p ə k ə ˈ n uː / TIP-ə-kə-NOO) was fought on November 7, 1811, in Battle Ground, Indiana, between American forces led by then Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and tribal forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa (commonly known as "The Prophet"), leaders of a confederacy of various tribes who ...
Fort Ouiatenon, built in 1717, was the first fortified European settlement in what is now Indiana, United States. [2] It was a palisade stockade with log blockhouse used as a French trading post on the Wabash River located approximately three miles southwest of modern-day West Lafayette. [3] The name ' Ouiatenon ' is a French rendering of the ...
Added to NRHP. March 24, 1982. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the French, British and U.S. forces built and occupied a number of forts at Vincennes, Indiana. These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River. The names of the installations were changed by the various ruling parties, and the forts were considered ...
The Ouabache Sculpture is a public artwork located in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County in the US state of Indiana.Located on a grassy plot between adjacent lanes of the Harrison Street Bridge and lying just east of the Wabash River, [1] the sculpture is kinetic and will move by being pushed by the wind. [2]
The Treaty of Fort Wayne was finally signed on September 29, 1809, selling the United States over 3,000,000 acres (approximately 12,000 km 2), mostly along the Wabash River north of Vincennes. [2] With the help of Miami Chief Pacanne , who was influential with the Wea, Harrison later that winter was able to obtain the acceptance of the Wea by ...
656 killed or captured 279 wounded. St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, [ 3 ] was a battle fought on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the United States. The U.S. Army faced the Western Confederacy of Native Americans, as part of the Northwest ...