Siege of Fort Pitt Siege of Fort Pitt The Siege of Fort Pitt took place during June and July 1763 in what is now the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The siege was a part of Pontiac's War, an effort by Native Americans to remove the British from the Ohio Country and Allegheny Plateau after they refused to honor their promises and treaties to leave voluntarily after the defeat of the French. The Native American efforts of diplomacy, and by siege, to remove the British from Fort Pitt ultimately failed. This event is best known as an early instance of biological warfare, where
Siege of Fort Augustus (March 1746) further ado. He was later court-martialed and dismissed from service for doing so. With Fort Augustus taken the attention of both the Jacobites and the British-Hanoverian Government shifted to that of Fort William which was the last surviving strong point along the Great Glen, and the Jacobites subsequently unsuccessfully laid siege to that fort from March to April 1746. Siege of Fort Augustus (March 1746) The Siege of Fort Augustus was a conflict that took place over two days in 1746 during the Jacobite rising of 1745. A rebel Jacobite force succeeded in taking the fort from British-Hanoverian forces in