| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.1

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Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America. By David Dixon. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xiii 353p. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

In 1763 and 1764 it may have seemed that the fate of the British Empire in America was hanging in the balance. A wide alliance of Indians throughout the Ohio and Pennsylvania region and into the western Great Lakes had moved against the British forts, and settlers throughout the area had both taken numerous forts and inflicted many casualties. This movement has come down to us through history with the name of Pontiac's Uprising, so labeled because of the leadership of the Ottawa Indian named Pontiac, though historians have differed over exactly how much he controlled the uprising that has been given his name. Largely because of British superiority in numbers and supply potential the war was eventually fought to a stalemate. While the English presence had been pushed back and the natives still controlled the territory they occupied at the start of the war, the Indians had lost an opportunity to inflict greater damage on the English and halt their push for land that would eventually lead to native dispossession.

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