Tecumseh, born in 1768 in the Pickaway settlements on the Mad River and raised by older siblings at Old Town, became one of the most influential Native Americans of the 19th century and a prominent Shawnee war leader who vigorously opposed American expansion. He fought at the Battle of Fallen Timbers but refused to attend the signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville in 1795. Angered by United States purchases of Native American land in Indiana, he promoted a pan-Indian confederacy to resist white settlement and traveled thousands of miles across the western and southern frontiers seeking support. He sided with the British in the War of 1812 and was killed at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, ending hopes for a united Indian coalition. Here in 1805, Tecumseh and his younger brother Tenskwatawa, known as Open Door or the Shawnee Prophet, established a village as a mission for Native American unity. After receiving a vision from the Great Spirit or Master of Life, Tenskwatawa renounced alcohol and preached a return to traditional Indian practices, native foods, implements, dress, and ceremonies. As settlers feared the growing contingent living south of the Greene Ville Treaty line and William Henry Harrison applied pressure, the Prophet moved his followers to Indiana Prophetstown in 1808; that settlement was destroyed in the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. During the Shawnee removal west in 1826, the Prophet asked the U.S. Army for permission to spend a few days here to honor their ancestors. He died in November 1836 and is buried somewhere under modern Kansas City.