Pontiac (Ottawa leader) On May 9, he laid siege to the fort, and was eventually joined by more than 900 warriors from a half-dozen tribes. While Pontiac was besieging Fort Detroit, messengers spread word of his actions. Indians made widespread attacks against British forts and Anglo-American (but not French) settlements, and at one point controlled nine of eleven British forts in the Ohio Valley. They destroyed Fort Sandusky. In July 1763, Pontiac defeated a British detachment at the Battle of Bloody Run, but he was unable to capture the fort. In October, he lifted the siege and withdrew to the Illinois Country, where
Fort Jennings, Ohio Fort Jennings, Ohio Fort Jennings is a village in the southwestern corner of Putnam County, Ohio, United States. The population was 485 at the 2010 census. The first settlement at Fort Jennings was made around 1850. Fort Jennings took its name from a pioneer fort Col. William Jennings built near the site in 1812. The village was incorporated in 1881. Fort Jennings is located at (40.904854, -84.298023). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 485 people, 194