Show Notes
Before lacrosse became a modern sport with helmets, pads, and tiny goals, it was a massive Native American war game played across miles of open land.
But in 1763, outside Fort Michilimackinac, the Ojibwe and Sauk used it for something even more dramatic: a deception so simple the British never saw it coming.
This is the bizarre but true story of how a ball game, an open fort gate, and one very badly timed lack of suspicion helped turn a sporting spectacle into one of the strangest infiltrations in North American military history.
Hosted by history teacher turned podcaster, Nick Charlie Key (host of The Fantastic History of Food).
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