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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 24, 1757 Colonel John Parkers Defeat

It was not going well at first to British and French Soldiers, just before that battle and massacre at Fort William Henry. On Saturday July 23, 1757, on orders giving to raid nearby Indians, British Colonel, John Parker, set out from Fort William Henry, to do what he had been ordered to do. Colonel Parkers Defeat was a part of Pontiac's War. A list of Battles of Pontiac's War is above. Colonel Parkers five companies of New Jersey provincials numbering around 350 men, set sail in two bay boats and twenty whale boats, from Fort William Henry to begin their planned mission against their nearby foes. Ojibway Soldiers totaling over five hundred, got very wise to them movements of that small white military force, then set up an ambush of Colonel Parker and his three hundred and fifty men, very next morning. Waiting very patiently for their arrival, Ojibways Soldiers at start of this ancient naval battle, captured three of Colonel Parkers barges, and must have been pleased and anticipating a victory soon to be won, afterwards. After capturing three more British barges, three more British boats appeared suffering a same fate as those earlier British boats had endured. There were still sixteen British boats that had yet to arrive, and they were to regret they had ever taking part in that military adventure. Concealed soldiers from Three Fires Confederation, wasted little time in ambushing those remaining sixteen British boats, after seeing their enemy approach their planned location to attack them.

Under a heavy assault by Ojibway Soldiers who came from shore, British started to retreat from a furious assault from those Ojibway Soldiers. Sensing an easy victory, Ojibway Soldiers, after having seen a retreat of their British enemy away from their furious assault, immediately pursued them fleeing British boats in their canoes. Easily catching up to them slower British boats, Anishinabe Soldiers relentlessly attacked English Soldiers on those remaining sixteen British boats. In a battle that occurred on Sunday July 24, 1757, only four of them British boats managed to escape, while them other twelve boats were captured or were sunk. During that ancient intense battle, Ojibway Soldiers, upon seeing many of their English enemy fall into Lake Champlains water, either deliberately or accidentally, jumped into Lake Champlain to do battle with their English enemy. There were many British Soldiers who had been killed by Ojibway Soldiers while in Lake Champlains waters, which must have been a very terrifying ordeal, yet I assume at least some British Soldiers used that situation as an opportunity to escape successfully. After their victory over their British enemy, victorious Anishinabe Soldiers took nearly two hundred British prisoners away with them to be either enslaved or later killed, or sold back to whites for European goods. Indians had suffered minimal casualties during Colonel John Parkers Defeat. British casualties are more difficult to determine. In fact, results were much different. Most of them two hundred British Soldiers captured by Ojibway Soldiers, were most likely killed later. British had somewhere around 150 of their soldiers killed during that ancient battle, and while they were POWS within Indian communities, they were brought to after they were captured by Anishinabek. Many also became slaves. This battled occurred on Lake Champlain which was then part of Ojibway Territory.