At the critical period he succeeded in keeping the Six Nations loyal, save for the Senecas.

This was most important; for had the Six Nations joined in the war against the British, it is probable that not a fort west of Montreal would have remained standing.

The line of communication between Albany and Oswego would have been cut, provisions and troops could not have been forwarded, and, inevitably, both Niagara and Detroit would have fallen.
But as it was, the Pontiac War proved serious enough.

It extended as far north as Sault Ste Marie and as far south as the borders of South Carolina and Georgia.

Detroit was cut off for months; the Indians drove the British from all other points on the Great Lakes west of Lake Ontario; for a time they triumphantly pushed their war-parties, plundering and burning and murdering, from the Mississippi to the frontiers of New York.