Timeline
Fort Wayne, Indiana · 18th century
1760s
2 dated events in 1760s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
18th century 2 dated mentions
1760s
- 1763–1794Before 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.
- 1764–1816Pacanne · 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.