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APPENDIX.

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PONTIAC'S WAR.

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CHAPTER I.

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SEIGE OF DETROIT.

Indian Partiality for the French--Pontiac--Organizes a Conspiracy against the English--Indian Domain--Encroachments of Whites--Indian Hostilities --Pontiac Calls a Council of his Chiefs--Appeals to their Superstition--Plan to Attack Detroit--Pontiac Calls Another Council--Plan of Attack Adopted--Preparations--Plot Revealed to the Garrison by an Ojibwa Girl--Pontiac's Failure--Murder of Whites--Attack on the Fort--Major Gladwyn's Messengers to Pontiac--Failure to Make Terms--Attacks Renewed--Siege--Pontiac Exacts Supplies from the French--His Speech to the French--Pontiac's Promissory Notes--Garrison Short of Provisions--Boats with Provisions Captured--Other Reverses--Detroit Reinforced and Provisioned--Pontiac again Seeks Alliance with the French--Some Accept the War-belt--Dog-feast-- Lieutenant Hay--Blazing Rafts--Treaty with Wyandots and Pottawattamies--Another Convoy with Reinforcements--Attack on the Convoy--Boats Land at the Fort--Capt. Dalzell--His Night Attack on the Indians--Disastrous Defeat--Captains Gray and Dalzell Killed--Attack on the Schooner--Master Horst killed-- A Heroic Crew--Arrival of Col. Bradstreet with Reinforcements--Indians Abandon the Siege.

THE close of the French War, in 1761, by which Great Britain acquired sovereignty over Canada, brought with it a spirit of bitter discontent among the various Indian tribes who, during that struggle, had adhered to the French

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Chapter One| Chapter Two| Chapter Three| Chapter Four| Chapter Five

Chapter Six| Chapter Seven| Chapter Eight| Chapter Nine| Chapter Ten

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