Fort Pitt Museum Pitt, after William Pitt the Elder. As a result, in 1763 local Delawares and Shawnees took part in Pontiac's Rebellion, an effort to drive the British out of their territory. The Indians' siege of Fort Pitt began on June 22, 1763, but the fort was too strong to be taken by force. In negotiations during the siege, the commander of Fort Pitt gave two Delaware emissaries blankets that had been exposed to smallpox, in hopes of infecting the surrounding Indians and ending the siege. The effectiveness of this attempt is unclear. Outbreaks of smallpox had plagued Native Americans for years
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