Fort Sandusky
Fort St. Joseph
Fort Miamis
Fort Ouiatenon
Fort Venango
Fort LeBoeuf,
Fort Edward Augustus
all fell
On 29 July 1763 Captain James Dalyell led 247 British
soldiers toward Pontiac’s camp.
Pontiac’s men intercepted them at a narrow bridge crossing
Parent’s Creek. Dalyell and nineteen others were killed.
The creek was renamed Bloody Run.
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City, you are a river.
A creek filled with blood. |
