[books i've been reading]

The last book I read in the Allan Eckert's Winning of America series ended with the defeat of the French and their native American allies in the French & Indian War. The Conquerors begins right after the fall of Montreal. Now under English jurisdiction, and chafing under English policies that treated the native Americans without dignity or honor, native Americans rose up and struck at English forts throughout the wilderness. Every fort west of Fort Pitt (modern day Pittsburgh) fell, with the exception of Fort Detroit. This Indian rebellion, known as "Pontiac's Rebellion," couldn't last, and the end of Pontiac's Rebellion signaled the end of native American resistance, though the end would come slow and with much blood spilled.