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2 unusual facts about Pontiac's War


Shenandoah County, Virginia

Shawnee attacks reached as far east as the current county during Pontiac's War (1763-1766).

The War that Made America

Pontiac's War, which followed the French and Indian War, is also covered in the series.


Anne Bailey

He served in Lord Dunmore's War and was killed on October 10, 1774 in an encounter with the Shawnee tribe forces led by Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant.

Big Red Letter Day

The leadoff track, "Sodajerk," was featured on the soundtrack for the short-lived television series My So-Called Life and in commercials for Nike and Pontiac.

Cannon for Cordoba

The results of films of other companies - for instance Mackenna's Gold, Murphy's War, The Last Valley - as well as our own - Play Dirty, The Bridge at Remagen - indicated a need for substantial downward revisions in assessing proper budget costs for pictures in this category - even with the so-called big name action stars.

Chevrolet S-10 Blazer

The S-series SUVs, so named because they were based on the Chevrolet S-10 and GMC S-15 pickup trucks, were produced in Pontiac, Michigan; Linden, New Jersey; Moraine, Ohio; Shreveport, Louisiana; and São Paulo, Brazil (the Brazilian version is based on the second-generation S-series; even though production ceased in the U.S., new Blazers are locally produced in Brazil with their own sheetmetal stampings).

Chevrolet straight-6 engine

Chevrolet/GMC trucks, which previously used the stovebolts (235 and 261), also used some members of this family from 1963 through 1984, as did Pontiac in 1964 and 1965.

Crown and Anchor

Crown and Anchor is one of the dice games played in the British detective series Foyle's War, episode 15, "Casualties of War."

Darrell Waltrip Motorsports

The team returned later in the year as the #35 Tabasco Pontiac with Waltrip driving after the team merged with a defunct team.

David Arch

Arch toured with Paul McCartney in support of his Memory Almost Full album, and has contributed to the soundtracks of The Queen, the film Harry Potter series, Bridget Jones's Diary, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Foyle's War and The King's Speech.

Doctor Scroggy's War

It is centred on the fictional soldier Jack Twigg and his involvement with Harold Gillies.

Élisabeth Ballet

2010 : Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA ; Institute of Visual Arts Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA ; MONA Museum of New Art - Detroit's Contemporary Museum, Pontiac, USA ;

Everyman's War

As the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer "Ghost" division move silently into position on the snow covered hills around Nennig, Germany, a battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend the small town, a key position in the Allied advance to win the war.

GM 122 engine

The MPFI and SFI versions produced enough power to allow the 2.2 to replace the old Pontiac Iron Duke engine as the 4-cylinder offering in the S/T platform trucks and A-body cars.

Grand Lodge of Michigan

The members of Zion Lodge sponsored and supported additional Lodges in Upper Canada and Michigan including Detroit Lodge No. 337 (now No. 2), Oakland Lodge No. 343 in Pontiac, Menomenie Lodge No. 374 in Green Bay (then a part of the Territory) and Monroe Lodge No. 375 in Monroe.

Harry Gant

After starting out the 1981 season driving for various teams, he moved to the #33 Skoal Bandit Pontiac, which was owned by Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds, and Leo Jackson after 1988.

High Backbone

During Red Cloud's War, Hump / High Backbone played a strategic role in the Fetterman Fight, December 21, 1866.

Joe Millikan

However, other races in Joe Milikan's career were done in Pontiac (Pontiac Grand Prix) and Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile Cutlass) vehicles but rarely in Ford (Ford Thunderbird) vehicles.

John Christian Hopkins

His first book, Carlomagno, is based off King Philip's War, fictionally elaborating on the story of King Philip's captured son, whom he names "Carlomagno."

John Hopkins Clarke

He was clerk of the supreme court of Providence County in 1813 and proprietor of a distillery in Cranston until 1824 when he became a cotton manufacturer in Providence, Pontiac, and Woonsocket.

John Katzenbach

Two more of his books were made into films in the United States, 1995's Just Cause and 2002's Hart's War.

Kieft's War

With David de Vries as its President, the council sought to dissuade Kieft from war.

Kimball Bent

He fell in with Titokowaru's followers in 1867 and fought with them against the colonists in what has become known as Titokowaru's War until their eventual defeat in 1869.

Lakewood Assembly

Lakewood assembled Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks at various points in their history, and also began assembling Chevrolet and GMC trucks from 1929 through at least 1986.

Luis del Mármol Carvajal

There is a cheap facsimile edition of another contemporary book in which he polemized with the author, albeit it was no printed at the time of the morisco´s war in the Alpujarra by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: GUERRA DE GRANADA (FACSIMIL, edition of 1842), de HURTADO DE MENDOZA, DIEGO , 15.0x21.0 cm , 215 pages , softcover, ISBN 978-84-9761-157-2

Madeleine Worrall

She also appears in Bunny and the Bull, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival, and as a guest artist in many British television series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War, alongside David Tennant.

Maggie dela Riva

Maggie was homeward bound (No. 48, 12th Street, New Manila, Quezon City) from the ABS-CBN Studio on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City, driving her bantam car with her maid Helen Calderon, when the 4 accused, using a Pontiac 2-door convertible car, waylaid her.

Mescalero

Nautzili (aka Natzili, Nautzile, Nodzilla - "buffalo", chief of the Guhlkahéndé and southern Lipan splinter groups living in northern Mexico, moved to reservation in 1876, had assumed in 1879 leadership of the largest number of Mescalero reservation bands (including the Lipan) and persuaded many warriors not to join the Chihenne chief Victorio in Victorio's War)

Ned Christie's War

After Fort Smith, Christie's body was sent to Fort Gibson to be identified by his family and to be buried, but the remains were later moved to the Watt Christie Cemetery in Wauhillau, Oklahoma.

Normand MacLeod

In 1761 Macleod attended the Niagara Conference held between Sir William Johnson and Pontiac.

Peter Schweizer

Schweizer's book Reagan's War was the basis of the documentary film In the Face of Evil.

Pierre Morpain

Since France and England were then at war, he made for the nearest safe port, which was Port Royal, the capital of Acadia.

Pontiac

The Firebird continued to fly high on the success of the 'Smokey and the Bandit' film, still offering Formula and Trans Am packages, plus a Pontiac first- a turbocharged V-8, for the 1980 and 1981 model years.

Pontiac fever

Species of Legionella known to cause Pontiac fever include Legionella pneumophila, Legionella longbeachae, Legionella feeleii, Legionella micdadei and Legionella anisa.

Prashant Bose

In September 2004, Maoist Communist Centre of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War had joined to form CPI (Maoist).

Redneck Zombies

Director Pericles Lewnes went on to work as a special effects supervisor on several other Troma productions, including The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III, and Troma's War, as well as Shatter Dead.

Richard E. Ellsworth

In the early 1950s, Ellsworth befriended Hollywood producer Herman Cohen during the filming of Battles of Chief Pontiac. The picture was shot on-location in western South Dakota, using Lakota Indians from a nearby reservation to portray the Native Americans.

Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec

During Father Rale's War, on September 10, 1722, in conjunction with Father Rale at Norridgewock, 400 or 500 St. Francis (Odanak, Quebec) and Mi'kmaq Indians prepared their attack on Arrowsic, Maine.

Santa Wheels

Santa Wheels is a volunteer program created in 1995 by Master Pontiac-Buick-GMC and re-launched in 2006 in Augusta, Georgia, United States.

Siege of Fort Detroit

On April 27, 1763, Pontiac spoke at a council on the shores of the Ecorse River, at what is now known as Council Point Park) in Lincoln Park, Michigan, about 10 miles (15 km) southwest of Detroit.

Siege of Port Toulouse

The Siege of Port Toulouse took place between May 2–10, 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Port Toulouse (present-day St. Peter's, Nova Scotia) in the French colony of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) from its French defenders during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.

Tanacharison

The Ohio Company fort was surrendered to the French by Croghan's half-brother, Edward Ward, and commanded by his business partner, William Trent, but Croghan's central role in these events remains suppressed, as he himself was in 1777, when Pittsburgh's president judge, Committee of Safety chairman, and person keeping the Ohio Indians pacificed since Pontiac's Rebellion was declared a traitor by General Edward Hand and exiled from the frontier.

Theodore Judson

He began writing after the death of his wife and he is the author of Tom Wedderburn's Life (2002), Fitzpatrick's War (2004), The Martian General's Daughter (2008), The Sultan's Emissary (2008) (a short story published in the anthology Sideways in Crime), The Thief Catcher (2008) (in Future Americas) and Hell Can Wait (2010).

Thunder Machine

Since an engine wasn't required, the front of the truck was replaced with the nose of a 1970's era Pontiac Trans Am on top of which was mounted a roll cage and two huge armor-piercing Gatling guns.

True Media

Evans’ previous experience includes developing media plans for Hummer, Cadillac, Pontiac and GM Goodwrench.

Vincent Meli

He was named by former Detroit mobster Nove Tocco and retired federal agents as an associate of Michael Bane, president of Pontiac, Michigan's Teamster Local 614, during federal investigations into labor union corruption.

Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer

They also fought US soldiers; his elder brother was killed in the fight at Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's attempt to clear the Bozeman Trail of US forts.


see also

Bloody Run

Battle of Bloody Run, the name ascribed to a July 1763 battle, part of the conflict known as Pontiac's War (alternatively as Pontiac's Rebellion), fought near Fort Detroit (Present day Detroit Michigan's Near-East Side)