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Pontiac's War Battles Battle of Piqua Battle of Jumonville Battle of Fort Necessity Battle of Fort Beausejour Battle of Monongahela Battle of Lake George Battle of Fort Bull Battle of Fort Oswego Kittaning Raid Colonel Parkers Defeat Battle of Fort William Henry Battle of Bloody Creek Battle of Snowshoes Siege of Louisburg Battle of Fort Carillon Battle of Fort Frontenac Battle of Fort Duquesne Battle of Fort Ligonier Raid on German Flatts Battle of Fort Niagara Battle of La Belle-Famille Battle of Fort Ticonderoga Battle of Beauport Odanak Massacre Battle of Quebec Battle of Sainte-Foy Battle of Thousand Islands Siege of Fort Detroit Battle of Fort Sandusky English Reinforcements Are Defeated Battle of Fort St. Joseph Battle of Fort Miami Battle of Fort Ouiatenon Battle of Fort Michilimackinac Battle of Fort Venango Battle of Fort Le Boeuf Battle of Fort Presque Isle Siege of Fort Pitt Battle of Bloody Run September 1763 Ojibwa Defeat Battle of Devils Hole Major John Wilkins Defeat Colonel Bradstreets Defeat

July 31, 1763 Battle of Bloody Run

On Friday July 29, 1763 English reinforcements numbering 280 soldiers reached Fort Detroit by using schooners and sloops. They possibly snuck their way to Fort Detroit by sailing at night. They wasted little time in preparing for battle. Very early on Sunday July 31, 1763 nearly 250 English Soldiers left Fort Detroit to trek to an Ojibway camp very near Fort Detroit. Ojibway scouts were watching their movements and notified their commanders who sent their soldiers out to battle their English enemy. In a six hour battle, Ojibway Soldiers drove their English enemy back to Fort Detroit. They killed and wounded 150 or more of their English enemy. However, they still couldn't take Fort Detroit. Ojibway Soldiers did use their large canoes for naval battles yet they definitely did not patrol all of Lake Erie during those times. They did patrol Lake Erie's coast but not all of Lake Erie. That allowed them English to sail up to Fort Detroit by way of Detroit River. Fort Detroit was located where Larned Street and Griswold Street are, near Financial District. It was built in 1701 by French who fooled Ojibways by telling them it would be a trading post. They later built a fort there. Belle Isle was 2 miles east. Battle of Bloody Run was fought about a mile or so northwest of Belle Isle.