Pontiac's War
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Pontiac's War was launched in 1763 by a confederation of Native Americans who were dissatisfied with British rule in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War. Warriors from numerous
In a famous council on April 27, 1763, Pontiac urged listeners to rise up against the British (19th century engraving by Alfred Bobbett)
The policies of General Jeffery Amherst, a British hero of the Seven Years' War, helped to provoke Pontiac's War (Portrait of Jeffery Amherst by Joshua Reynolds, 1765).
Pontiac takes up the war hatchet
Massacre of the Indians at Lancaster by the Paxton Boys in 1763, a historically inaccurate lithograph published in John Wimer's 1841 Events in Indian History
American Indian Wars
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The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, were initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Confederate States of Am
Pontiac's War
…Pontiac's War Part of the American Indian Wars and a continuation of the French and Indian War In a famous council on April 27, 1763, Pontiac urged listeners to rise up against the British (19th…
1899 chromolithograph depicting the Great Sioux War of 1876
Jamestown Indian massacre of 1622
Siege of Fort Detroit during Pontiac's War in 1763
The abduction of Jemima Boone by Shawnee in 1776