Capture of Fort Michilimackinac

On June 2, 1763, as part of the larger conflict known as Pontiac's War, a group of Ojibwe staged a game of baaga'adowe, a forerunner of modern lacrosse, outside Fort Michilimackinac as a ruse to gain entrance. The fort, an 18th-century French and later British fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac, had been relinquished by the French to the British in 1761 following their defeat in the French and Indian War. This attack fell within the span of May 16 to June 2, 1763, in which Indians captured five small British forts.