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History Journals & 19th Century Newspapers

Periodicals / archives, Digital Archives, ebooks, history, history journals, library, newspapers

We have a selection of free online history journals, magazines and newspapers from the 1800s and early 1900s from the Great Lakes region and each of it’s five states, at these pages; Great Lakes History Periodicals: Newspapers Illinois History Periodicals Indiana History Periodicals Michigan History Periodicals Ohio History Periodicals Wisconsin History Periodicals We also have […]

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Pontiac’s War: Northern Forts Under Attack

History, Michigan, Native Americans / ebooks, First-Person Accounts in History of the Great Lakes States, Fort Detroit, Fort Michilimackinac, french and indian war, historical fiction, history, library, military, Pontiac, Pontiac's War

As a boy I visited Fort Michilimackinac and learned how the Indians, playing a ball game next to the fort in 1763, used a ruse to get warriors inside the gate. They then attacked the British garrison and took the fort. This was just one of many similar attacks on British forts in the region

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