Major-General Henry Gladwin was a British army officer in colonial America and the British commander at the Siege of Fort Detroit during Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763. He served in the disastrous campaign of Edward Braddock and in other actions in the French and Indian War but is best remembered for his defense of Detroit in Pontiac's Rebellion.
Ottawa chief Pontiac visits Major Henry Gladwin, commanding Fort Detroit, planning to kill him and start a massacre of the English. Gladwin, fore-warned, dismisses him. Engraving by "WLJ" in Cassell's History of the World.
1777 portrait of Dorothy Gladwin (died 1792), sister of Gen. Henry Gladwin and wife of Rev. Basil Beridge, rector of Alderchurch, Lincolnshire, half-brother of Frances Beridge, wife of Gen. Henry Gladwin. By Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, US
"The Gravenor Family", by Thomas Gainsborough, c.1754. One of the daughters is Anne Gravenor, sister-in-law of Henry Gladwin
The siege of Fort Detroit was an ultimately unsuccessful attempt by North American Natives to capture Fort Detroit during Pontiac's Rebellion. The siege was led primarily by Pontiac, an Ottawa chief and military leader. This rebellion would be one of the catalysts that hastened the declaration of the Proclamation of 1763 which would eventually precipitate the events leading to the American Revolution.
The Siege of the Fort at Detroit by Frederic Remington
Ottawa chief Pontiac visits Major Henry Gladwin, commanding Fort Detroit, planning to kill him and start a massacre of the English. Gladwin, fore-warned, dismisses him. Engraving by "WLJ" in Cassell's History of the World
Fort Detroit circa 1710
