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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amherst , Sir Jeffrey , 1717 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Campbell , Donald 1735 - (search)
Campbell, Donald 1735-
Military officer; born in Scotland about 1735; entered the British army, and on Jan. 4, 1756, became a lieutenant in the Royal American Regiment; promoted captain of the same, Aug. 29, 1759; was acting commandant of Fort Detroit when that place was besieged by Pontiac.
At the request of the latter he consented to confer with him. Though he was several times warned of treachery, he would not remain in the fort.
After addressing the savages he was taken captive by them and tortured to death, in 1763.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gladwin , Henry 1755 -1791 (search)
Gladwin, Henry 1755-1791
Military officer; born in England; participated in Braddock's
Battle of Glendale, or Frazier's farm. expedition in 1755; commanded the fort at Detroit when Pontiac besieged it in 1763-64; was deputy adjutant-general during the Revolutionary War; promoted major-general, Sept. 26, 1782.
He died in Derby, England, June 22, 1791.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kickapoos, (search)
Kickapoos,
An Algonquian tribe found by the French missionaries, towards the close of the seventeenth century, on the Wisconsin River.
They were great rovers; were closely allied to the Miamis; and in 1712 joined the Foxes in an attack upon Detroit, and in wars long afterwards.
They were reduced in 1747 to about eighty warriors, and when the English conquered Canada in 1763 there were about 100 Kickapoos on the Wabash.
They joined Pontiac in his conspiracy, but soon made peace; and in 1779 they joined George Rogers Clarke in his expedition against the British in the Northwest.
Showing hostility to the Americans, their settlement on the Wabash was desolated in 1791; but they were not absolutely subdued until the treaty at Greenville in 1795, after Wayne's decisive victory, when they ceded a part of their land for a small annuity.
In the early part of the nineteenth century the Kickapoos made other cessions of territory; and in 1811 they joined Tecumseh and fought the Americ
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 sons.
Forts Pitt, Niagara, and Detroit were saved.
Colonel Bouquet saved Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg); Niagara was not attacked; and Detroit, after a long siege by Pontiac in person, was relieved by Colonel Bradstreet in 1764.
The Indians were speedily subdued, but Pontiac remained hostile until his death in Cahokia, Ill., in 1769.The Indians were speedily subdued, but Pontiac remained hostile until his death in Cahokia, Ill., in 1769.
He was an able sachem and warrior, and, like King Philip, was doubtless moved by patriotic impulses; for the flow of emigration over the mountains threatened his race with displacement if not with destruction.
See Detroit.