Battle of Devil's Hole

Battle of Devil's Hole
Part of Pontiac's Rebellion

Chief Pontiac
DateSeptember 14, 1763
Location
present as near Niagara Gorge
Result Seneca victory
Belligerents

Iroquois

Kingdom of Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Cornplanter
Honayewus
Sayenqueraghta
George Campbell 
William Fraser 
John Stedman
Strength
309[1] 134
Casualties and losses
1 wounded 81 soldiers and 21 teamsters and escort killed,
1 teamster and 8 soldiers wounded

The Battle of Devil's Hole, known to the Anglo-Americans as the Devil's Hole Massacre, was fought near Niagara Gorge in present-day New York state on September 14, 1763, between a detachment of the British 80th Regiment of Light Armed Foot and about 300 Seneca warriors during Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766). The Seneca warriors killed 81 British soldiers and wounded 8 before the British managed to retreat.

  1. ^ Brumwell, Stephen. Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755–1763, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-80783-2