On 21 June 1752, a party of French Indians led by the French adventurer Charles Langlade, who had a Huron wife and was also influential among the Seneca, Iroquois and Micmac, led a war party of 240 warriors down Lake Huron, across Lake Erie and into the newly settled farmlands of British Ohio. Tomahawks at the ready, they fell on the British settlement of Pickawillany, achieving complete surprise. Only twenty British settlers managed to muster at the stockade. Of those, one was later scalped and another ceremonially boiled and the most delicious parts of his body eaten.
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It would carry European arms and warfare from the Ohio to the Philippines, from Cuba to the coast of Nigeria, and from the Heights of Abraham outside Quebec to the marshy flatlands and mango groves of Plassey.
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But the part of the globe it would transform most lastingly was India.
Few Ohioans know of the terrible battles and massacres that took place in their placid state during the late 18th century. Not only the famous battles, like Fallen Timbers and Pickawillany, but the hideous Gnadenhutten massacre and others. Indians also committed unspeakable atrocities on random whites. It was a squalid trail of psychosis leading from the Ohio River, through the Dayton area to Sandusky.