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Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
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Indigenous people of North America
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18th century Native American war chief
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Battle of Bloody Run
Battle of Pontiac's War (1763)
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Pontiac's War
1763 conflict by indigenous Native Americans against the British in Canada
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