Show courageous pontiac in 1763 1783 when the war between france and england for the possession of canada ended in victory for the british a certain great war chief wrathfully declined to abide by the defeat of the french with whom he had been allied his name was pontiac courageous courageous crafty leader of the powerful ottaway Ot tawas ojibway and believing that english control of the continent meant the doom of his race the red napoleon conspired with other tribes to destro destroy y all the british forts sweep away the frontier settlements and drive the enemy into the sea the redskins Red skins furiously attacked all the english posts on the great lakes and in most cases massacred the entire garrison the uprising failed in its final purpose for the two main points detroit and fort pitt were successfully defended and the indians were forced to flee pontiac died as violently as he lived in 1769 he was tomahawked toma hawked by a kas bakia indian in illinois |