Timeline / Colonizers and Resistance / 1768: Britain stops protecting American colonies from Native attack
1768: Britain stops protecting American colonies from Native attack
As American settlements continue to encroach on Native lands, the colonies express worry about attacks by Native peoples. Britain, weary of losses to the Ottawa chief Pontiac after the Seven Years’ War and facing increasing resentment over colonial taxes, tells its American colonies to handle the “merciless Indian Savages” themselves.
- Theme
- Land and Water
- Region
- Northeast, Southeast
Depiction of conflict between a group of Native Americans and North American colonists
Courtesy John Carter Brown Library at Brown University