Battle of Bloody Run
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The Battle of Bloody Run Michigan Historical marker is located on the front of the Players club building at 3321 East Jefferson Ave. Detroit,Mi.
Waymark Code: WM1FQK
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 04/29/2007
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Michigan Historical Marker Text:
Near this site, in late July 1763, the British and Indians fought the fiercest battle of Chief Pontiac's uprising. As Captain James Dalyell led about 260 soldiers across Parent's Creek, the Indians launched a surprise attack which devastated the British. Dalyell and some sixty of his men were killed, and the creek became known as Bloody Run. This battle marked the height of Pontiac's siege of Detroit, a struggle which he was forced to abandon three months later.