Beyond Pontiac's shadow : Michilimackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763 /
On June 2, 1763, the Ojibwe captured Michigan's Fort Michilimackinac from the British. Ojibwe warriors from villages on Mackinac Island and along the Cheboygan River had surprised the unsuspecting garrison while playing a game of baggatiway. On the heels of the capture, Odawa from nearby L'...
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Michigan State University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Phil Porter
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Michilimackinac, 1760 : at the heart of North America
- Michilimackinac, 1761 : French-Canadian, Odawa, and Ojibwe community
- Detroit, 1760-1761 : British enter the Pays d'en Haut
- Michilimackinac, 1761 : British troops take possession of the fort and the posts at La Baye and St Joseph
- Prelude to war, 1762-1763 : Amherst's policies, native unrest, and the diplomacy of Thomas Hutchins and James Gorrell
- Michilimackinac on the brink, spring 1763
- Michilimackinac, summer 1763 : attack, exile, diplomacy, loss, repatriation
- Crown officials respond to calamity, late 1763 and early 1764
- Prelude to British reoccupation of Fort Michilimackinac, 1764
- British return to Michilimackinac, 1764-1765
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1 : Michilimackinac families
- Appendix 2 : Dietrich Brehm's reports for 1760 and 1761
- Appendix 3 : Deeds, December 21, 1760.