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APPENDIX -- PONTIAC'S WAR, ETC.

CHAPTER I.

SIEGE OF DETROIT.

Pages 461 - 484.....Indian Partiality for theFrench--Pontiac --Organizes a Conspiracy against the English--Indian Domain --Encroachments of Whites--Indian Hostilities--Pontiac calls a Council of his Chiefs--Appeals to their Superstitition--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--The Heroic Crew-- Arrival of Col. Bradstreet with Reinforcements--Indians abandon the Siege.

CHAPTER II.

GENERAL HOSTILITIES.

Pages 485 - 509.....Port Michillimackinac--Traders--Speech of Minavavana--Indians Demand Goods--Arrival of Troops--Indians Feign Friendship--They Destroy the Garrison--Military Posts--Murders near Fort Pitt--Shingas--Attack on Fort Pitt--Capt. Ecuyer--Indians capture Presque Isle--Le Baeuf and Venango--Garrison at Venango Murdered--Council at Fort Pitt--Another attack on Fort Pitt--General Hostilities--Col. Bouquet's Expedtion--His Victory at Bushy Run --Sir William Johnson--Attack at "Devil's Hole"--Troubles on the Border --Indians in the Far West--French Jesuits--Two Expeditions--Great Council at Niagara--Col. Bradstreet's Expedition--Council at Detroit --Indians agree to Terms of Peace--Deserted Posts Regarrisoned --Capt. Morris and his Party--Col. Bradstreet's Return--Col. Bouquet's Expedition to the Muskingum--Holds a Council--Conditions of Peace --Surrender of Captives--Return to Fort Pitt.

Contents, page 17 (Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 3, 4, 5)

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