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During the previous two years there had been many atrocities committed by the Indians, but the present year of 1763 was to witness horrors which had, as yet, seen few parallels in history.
The anger of the red men from the Great Lakes to Chesapeake Bay was at a white heat. They had been promised much by the French and the English during the intercolonial war, yet they had received little. The French could give them nothing, having lost practically all, and the English, generally speaking, counted the red men as being in the way. Besides this, many of the traders had treated the natives shamefully, securing their furs for next to nothing, giving them rum, and when they were intoxicated robbing them, and having no respect whatever for the families of the Indians.