Unless the nest of banditti at Tippecanoe was broken up, the axe would quickly fall on all the settlements.
Not an Indian was seen until November the sixth, when the troops were within eleven miles of Tippecanoe.
This arrangement was very much disliked by Tecumseh, and the banditti that he had assembled at Tippecanoe.
The next morning Scott determined to destroy Kethtipecanunck, or Tippecanoe, eighteen miles up the river.
