Near this site, in late July 1763, British forces 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 that devastated the British. Dalyell and about sixty of his men were killed, and the creek became known as Bloody Run. The battle marked the height of Pontiac's siege of Detroit, a struggle he was forced to abandon three months later.