Native Americans capture five small forts in…
May 1763 CE
The first to be taken is Fort Sandusky, a small blockhouse on the shore of Lake Erie.
It had been built in 1761 by order of General Amherst, despite the objections of local Wyandots, who in 1762 warned the commander that they would soon burn it down.
On May 16, 1763, a group of Wyandots gain entry under the pretense of holding a council, the same stratagem that had failed in Detroit nine days earlier.
They seized the commander and kill the other fifteen soldiers, as well as British traders at the fort.
These are among the first of about one hundred traders who are killed in the early stages of the war.
The dead were ritually scalped and the fort—as the Wyandots had warned a year earlier—is burned to the ground
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Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations)
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Wyandot, or Wendat, or Huron people (Amerind tribe)
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Miami (Amerind tribe)
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Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans)
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Ojibwa, or Ojibwe, aka or Chippewa (Amerind tribe)
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Odawa, or Ottawa, people (Amerind tribe)
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Seneca (Amerind tribe)
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Mascouten (Amerind tribe)
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Kickapoo people (Amerind tribe)
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Potawatomi (Amerind tribe)
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Wea (Amerind tribe)
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Piankeshaw (Amerind tribe)
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Shawnees, or Shawanos (Amerind tribe)
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Ohio Country
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Illinois Country
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Britain, Kingdom of Great
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Mingo (Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma)
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