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Pontiac, a Native American chief of the Odawa tribe, led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War.
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18th century Native American war chief
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Indigenous people of North America
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Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit
French colonial fort in present-day Detroit, Michigan, US (1701–1796)
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Pontiac's War
1763 conflict by indigenous Native Americans against the British in Canada
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