The French and Indian War - Pontiac’s War

American Political History · Jul 4, 2023 · 18m

In the spring of 1763, the British colonies were lighting bonfires for the greatest victory in their history — and within weeks the frontier they had just won was burning. This is the story of Pontiac’s War, told from the colonies that lived through it: of eight British forts that fell in a single summer, of a frontier swept by raids that killed or carried off thousands, and of a war that found no bottom. It is the story of the Ottawa leader Pontiac and the Delaware prophet Neolin, whose vision of the Master of Life gave the uprising its fire — and of what the terror did to the colonists…