Editing Vincennes, Indiana (section)

===British America===
[[File:Vincennes Indiana British Fort Diorama.JPG|thumb|right|Diorama of Fort Sackville]]
On February 10, 1763, when [[New France]] was ceded to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] at the conclusion of the [[French and Indian War]], Vincennes fell under the authority of Great Britain. British officer John Ramsey came to Vincennes in 1766.  He took a census of the settlement, built up the fort, and renamed it [[Fort Sackville]].  The population grew quickly in the years that followed, resulting in a unique culture of interdependent [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], [[French Canadians|Canadien]] settlers and British traders.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

Vincennes was far from centers of British power.  In 1770 and 1772, [[Thomas Gage]], the commander in chief of Britain's North American forces, received warnings that the residents of Vincennes were [[American Revolution|agitating against]] [[the Crown]], and were inciting native tribes along the river trade routes to attack British traders. The [[Secretary of State for the Colonies|Colonial Secretary]], the [[Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire|Earl of Hillsborough]], ordered the residents to be removed from Vincennes in response. Gage demurred while the residents responded to the charges against them, claiming to be "peaceful settlers, cultivating the land which His Most Christian Majesty [meaning the King of France] granted us."  The issue was resolved by Hillsborough's successor, [[William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth|Lord Dartmouth]], who insisted to Gage that the residents were not lawless vagabonds, but British subjects whose rights were protected by the Crown. Gage took no action against the residents of Vincennes.<ref>Barnhart, p. 172–173.</ref> In 1778, residents at Poste Vincennes received word of the [[Treaty of Alliance (1778)|French alliance]] with the American [[Second Continental Congress]] from [[Pierre Gibault|Father Pierre Gibault]] and Dr. Jean Laffont. They mobilized in support of the American revolutionaries, as did the local [[Piankeshaw]], led by Chief [[Young Tobacco]].{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}