tippecanoe,e of which shares and was nicknamed and ran on tippecanoe and tyler to come at the battle of harrison had established his success enforcing the shawnee people to actually withdraw. the leader of the shawnee was not tecumseh, he was actually waging war against the americans and fighting for the british. the man that was responsible for the fighting against them was actually the profit, tense got a while -- tenskwatawa. followers recruited by a promising they would not be killed by the american army. he claimed he could give them special prayer that would make the bullet impervious to them it. this idea was maybe new at the time, but the boxers in china would also be anointed with special oils in 1900, during the boxer rebellion. and they too would be blessed by a priest in the shell and monasteries that they cannot be killed by foreign bullets, they would be impervious, which was not the case. and certainly wasn't the case with a prophet and his warriors. when tecumseh formed the federation, he had around 500 to 700 warriors, while the united states army had more than 1000