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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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Fort Niagara (New York, United States) (search for this): entry pontiac
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): entry pontiac
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry pontiac
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry pontiac
Ottawa (Canada) (search for this): entry pontiac
Pontiac,
Ottawa chief; born on the Ottawa River in 1720; became an early ally of the French.
With a body of Ottawas he defended the French tradingpost of Detroit against more northerly tribes, and it is supposed he led the Ottawas who assisted the French in defeating Braddock on the Monongahela.
In 1760, after the conquest of Canada, Major Rogers was sent to take possession of the Western posts.
Pontiac feigned friendship for the. English for a while, but in 1763 he was the leader in a conspiracy of many tribes to drive the English from the Ohio country back beyond the Alleghany Mountains.
The French had won the affection and respect of the Indian tribes with whom they came in contact, by their kindness, sociability, and religious influence; and when the English, formidable enemies of the red men, supplanted the French in
Pontiac. the alleged possession of the vast domain acquired by the treaty of Paris, expelled the Roman Catholic priests, and haughtily assumed to be a
Ottawa, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry pontiac
Pontiac,
Ottawa chief; born on the Ottawa River in 1720; became an early ally of the French.
With a body of Ottawas he defended the French tradingpost of Detroit against more northerly tribes, and it is supposed he led the Ottawas who assisted the French in defeating Braddock on the Monongahela.
In 1760, after the conquest of Canada, Major Rogers was sent to take possession of the Western posts.
Pontiac feigned friendship for the. English for a while, but in 1763 he was the leader in a conspiracy of many tribes to drive the English from the Ohio country back beyond the Alleghany Mountains.
The French had won the affection and respect of the Indian tribes with whom they came in contact, by their kindness, sociability, and religious influence; and when the English, formidable enemies of the red men, supplanted the French in
Pontiac. the alleged possession of the vast domain acquired by the treaty of Paris, expelled the Roman Catholic priests, and haughtily assumed to be a
Scioto (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry pontiac
Newburyport (Michigan, United States) (search for this): entry pontiac
Muskingum River (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry pontiac
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry pontiac