Rebellion of Pontiac

The rebellion of Pontiac is a war launched in 1763 by the Amerindian outaouais injured by the unfavorable commercial rules that the to them British imposed, only purchasers of fur after having beaten French during the Seven Year old war (1754-1763). The warriors of many tribes joined the Indian rising of which the goal was to push back the British forces and colonies out of their territory. The war is baptized name of the Chief Outaouais Pontiac, the leader most prominent of the indigenous chiefs during the conflict.

The war began in May 1763 when the Indians of America, particularly worried by the political decisions imposed by the British General Jeffrey Amherst, attacked a certain number of forts and British campings. Eight forts were destroyed, out of the hundreds of colonists were killed or captured and much fuyèrent the area. The hostilities finished after military forwardings of the British Army carried out in 1764 to peace negotiations during the two years to come. The Indians could not push back and beat the English, but rising encouraged the British government to re-examine its policy source of the conflict.

The war at the North-American border, during which place had, among many atrocities, massacres of prisoners and civil populations, was particularly brutal. Among the most known acts today of the conflict, one knows that the British chiefs with the Fort Pitt tried to spread the Petite pox at the Indians using covers infected by the disease. The cruelty of the combat was only one of the signs of racism growing between the British colonists and the Indians of America. The British government sought thereafter to avoid racist violences between the two people as a voter Royal the Proclamation of 1763, which will rule of a border between the colonists and the Indians.

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