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
Siege of Fort Bard The Fort, called by Napoleon "vilain castel de Bard" (evil castle of Bard in French) was destroyed completely under a Napoleon's order and it will get rebuilt only in 1830 by Charles Albert of Savoy. The surprise attack at the Austro-Piedmontese forces on the Po river in Lombardy planned by Napoleon was delayed. Napoleon will later took over the Piedmontese and Lombard area by defeating the Austrians in the Battle of Marengo. Siege of Fort Bard The Siege of Fort Bard (also known as Bard Fort) was a military action that took place during May 1800 during the second Napoleonic