Fort Michilimackinac stood from about 1715 to 1783 at the Straits of Mackinac, where it became a strategic French, then British, fort and trading post in the Great Lakes fur trade. Built after earlier French missions and forts in the straits, it served as a supply center linking the St. Lawrence to the western Great Lakes and Mississippi valley. In 1763, during Pontiac’s War, Ojibwe players used a baaga'adowe game to enter the fort and kill most British inhabitants before the British recovered it about a year later. Replaced by a stronger post on Mackinac Island, the site is now a major reconstructed and archaeological historic landscape.