The strategy relied on greater. surveillance of both inmates and. visitors,increased frequency of. random urinalysis,more cell. searches and surprise raids, and increased use of drug-. sniffing dogs.
Although no actual battles were fought in Michigan, menâand womenâfrom the state served throughout the war in more than 50 Michigan regiments of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, as well as in regiments of other states.
In a little over a month, Pontiac's forces had overrun most of the British forts in the region extending from the Pennsylvania frontier to Lake Superior. By mid-1763, Detroit was the only British post west of Niagara, New York, that had not fallen to American Indian attack. The well-organized American Indian offensive slowed in the summer of 1763, however, when Pontiac failed to capture this major British post.