A Native American Timeline-- Part 3: New Mexico, Seven Years' War, Treaties and Sacagawea

**  1680:  A revolt of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico threatens Spanish rule there.

**  1754:  The French and Indian War begins, pitting these two groups against the English settlements in North America.

**  MAY 15, 1756:  The Seven Years' War between the French and British begins, with the Indians siding with the French.

**  MAY 7, 1763:  Ottawa Chief Pontiac leads Indians into battle against the British at Detroit.  The British retaliate by attacking Pontiac's warriors in Detroit on July 31, in what is called the Battle of Bloody Run.  Pontiac and his forces  successfully fend them off, but there are several casualties on both sides.

**  1785:  The Treaty of Hopewell is signed in Georgia, protecting  Cherokee Indians in the United States and sectioning off their land.

**  1788/1789:  Sacagawea is born.

**  1791:  The Treaty of Holston is signed, in which the Cherokee give up all their land outside  of the borders previously established.

**  AUGUST 20, 1794:  The Battle of Timbers, the last major battle over Northwest Territory commences and results in an American victory.

--Cooter

Fort Stanwix-- Part 3: Important Indian Treaty and First U.S. Flag?

In 1768, Fort Stanwix was the site of an important treaty between the British and Iroquois Indians.  This treaty promised to preserve areas west of the Appalachians as an Indian reservation and prohibited colonial settlement there.  See how well that worked out.

Local folklore has it that the new U.S. flag was raised over the fort for the first time in battle anywhere on August 3, 1777,   But, more likely it was the Grand Union Flag.

--Brock-Perry

A British and American Thing This Date

This morning, I was looking at the Chicago Tribune This Date in History section and quizzing my buddy Cruz about it. He reads three to four newspapers a day and is a regular font of information, both useless and otherwise.

He did quite well on past events taking place this date.


SURE SAVED US

I was very interested in the fact that this date back in 1778, an event that probably when further than most anything else took place when Benjamin Franklin and two others got the French to sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance.

The second one meant that France would come to our aid and fight their old enemy, the British. The unexpected American victory at the Battle of Saratoga went a long way to getting the French to come in on our side.


HAPPY 60TH TO THE QUEEN

Also, this date, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne after the death of her father. This 60th year that she has ruled makes her one of the longest reigning British monarchs.

Some Important Stuff This Date. --Cooter