 Egushawa came to prominence as a successor to Pontiac, the famous Ottawa leader, to whom he may have been related.Egushawa may have fought against the British during the French and Indian War (1754–1763) as an ally of the French.When the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) began, Egushawa was living in a village at the mouth of the Maumee River, the location of the present-day Toledo, Ohio.