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* 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
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* 1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
The British army at least once attempted to use smallpox as a weapon, when they gave contaminated blankets to the Lenape during Pontiac's War ( 1763 – 66 ).
* 1763 – Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States.
" His father-in-law provided the money he needed for the trip, and David headed for Rome with his wife and three of his students, one of whom, Jean-Germain Drouais ( 1763 – 1788 ), was the Prix de Rome winner of that year.
* 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ) threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), which ended the Seven Years ' War.
French defeat by the British under the command of Robert Clive during the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) marked the end of the French stake in India.
1763 and Pontiac's
These were conventional battles on the European model, but fighting during Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763 was of a very different character.
* 1763 – American Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the " Conspiracy of Pontiac " by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
The policies he introduced in those lands disturbed large numbers of Indians, and contributed to the outbreak in 1763 of the conflict known as Pontiac's Rebellion.
In 1763 during Pontiac's Rebellion, Putnam was sent with reinforcements to relieve Pontiac's siege of Fort Detroit.
In response to the 1763 uprising known as Pontiac's Rebellion, the Commander of Fort Pitt proposed giving blankets infected with smallpox to American Indians.
However, the outbreak of Pontiac's War in the summer of 1763, coupled with the conciliatory but militarily ineffective policies of the provincial government, aroused in some suspicion and hatred against all Indians in the frontier counties of the state.
Following the war, from 1763 to 1774 Daniel Morgan served in Captain Ashby's company and defended Virginia against Pontiac's Rebellion and Shawnee Indians in the Ohio valley ( that part now in West Virginia ).
In 1763, Ojibwe Indians took the fort as a part of Pontiac's Rebellion and held it for a year before the British retook it.
Late during the French and Indian Wars, the Forbes expedition organized in Carlisle in 1758, and Henry Bouquet organized an expedition there for Pontiac's War, the last conflict of the war, in 1763.
Pontiac's Rebellion ( 1763 – 66 ) was an unsuccessful effort by Native Americans to prevent Great Britain from occupying the land previously claimed by France.
The Proclamation of 1763 had been in the works before Pontiac's Rebellion, but the outbreak of the conflict hastened the process.
As a part of Pontiac's Rebellion, Chippewa and Fox warriors captured the fort on June 2, 1763 during the baggatiway game surprise attack.
The outbreak in May 1763 of Pontiac's Rebellion, an Indian uprising against the British expansion, reinforced the logic of this decision.
He also had to deal with the fall-out from Pontiac's Rebellion, which erupted in North America in 1763.
Pontiac or Obwandiyag ( c. 1720 – April 20, 1769 ) was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion ( 1763 – 1766 ), an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War.
From 1763 to 1775 he served as commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America, overseeing the British response to the 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion.
When Pontiac's Rebellion occurred in 1763, refugees again fled into the city, including a group of Lenape hiding from other Native Americans, angry at their pacifism, and white frontiersmen.
1763 and Rebellion
* Hollis Liverpool, Rituals of Power & Rebellion: The Carnival Tradition in Trinidad & Tobago 1763 – 1962.
* Donald Campbell ( British Army officer ) ( died 1763 ), British officer killed in Pontiac's Rebellion
Pontiac's War, Pontiac's Conspiracy, or Pontiac's Rebellion was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War ( 1754 – 1763 ).
Native Americans involved in Pontiac's Rebellion lived in a vaguely defined region of New France known as the pays d ' en haut (" the upper country "), which was claimed by France until the Paris peace treaty of 1763.
Although fighting in Pontiac's Rebellion began in 1763, rumors reached British officials as early as 1761 that discontented Native Americans were planning an attack.
In 1763, Pontiac's Rebellion saw the fall of Fort Michilimackinac to the northern tribes, and a lengthy siege of Fort Detroit.
When the British defeated the French in 1763, other Shawnee joined Pontiac's Rebellion against the British, which failed a year later.
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