1760s

18th century 3 dated mentions

1760s

1. 1763
   The battles of the valley, each its own beat — and none of them here

   The capture of Fort St. Joseph, 25 May 1763: In Pontiac's Rebellion the valley's one fort fell to the valley's own people: Potawatomi warriors took Fort St. Joseph at Niles and carried off its British garrison, Ensign Schlosser prisoner among them.

   Mishawaka

2. 1763–1794
   Before the fort · the actions at Kekionga, 1763–1794

   The actions, in order: June 1763 — Pontiac's War. Ensign Robert Holmes, the British officer at the small post among the Miami towns, was ambushed and killed with his party, and the post passed into Native hands — the only British-era action on this ground.

   Fort Wayne

3. 1764–1816
   Pacanne · the chief who kept the town between empires

   He emerges in 1764, in the aftermath of Pontiac's War, when his sparing of the captured British officer Thomas Morris — carried in the record as the act that made his name — set Kekionga's course of accommodation with the incoming British.

   Fort Wayne