Battle of Devil's Hole

About 300 Seneca warriors during Pontiac's Rebellion ambush a wagon train and it's armed escort killing 81 British soldiers before the British retreat. The battle occurred near Niagara Gorge which was an area traditionally controlled by the Seneca. In particular there was frustration over settler control of a portage which had been run by the Seneca previously employing hundreds of Seneca porters. There was larger discontent amoung Indigenous peoples of the wider Great Lakes area over settler encroachment which led to Pontiac's Rebellion of which this attack was a part. Regardless, some historians do consider this attack to be the first labor uprising in what became the United States because the loss of the Seneca porter jobs was a part of the reasoning for their involvment in the wider Pontiac's Rebellion. This attack was almost certainly a part of the seige of Fort Detroit of which this area was a supply line. Seneca warrior Dekanandi later told the British the Seneca had only one man wounded in the attack. The battle was the deadliest engagement for the British during the war. While the Seneca eventually ceded land along the Niagara river, it was well known they desired it back and white settlers did not move in to the area until after the American Revolutionary War when most Haudenosaunee relocated to what is now Canada.