Marquis, Thomas Guthrie, 1864-1936 / 2008-06-09 00:00:00

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CHRONICLES OF CANADA
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes
Volume 15

THE WAR CHIEF OF THE OTTAWAS
A Chronicle of the Pontiac War
By THOMAS GUTHRIE MARQUIS
TORONTO, 1915

CONTENTS
I. THE TIMES AND THE MEN
II. PONTIAC AND THE TRIBES OF THE HINTERLAND
III. THE GATHERING STORM
IV. THE SIEGE OF DETROIT
V. THE FALL OF THE LESSER FORTS
VI. THE RELIEF OF FORT PITT
VII. DETROIT ONCE MORE
VIII. WINDING UP THE INDIAN WAR
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


CHAPTER I
THE TIMES AND THE MEN
There was rejoicing throughout the Thirteen Colonies, in
the month of September 1760, when news arrived of the
capitulation of Montreal. Bonfires flamed forth and
prayers were offered up in the churches and meeting-houses
in gratitude for deliverance from a foe that for over a
hundred years had harried and had caused the Indians to
harry the frontier settlements. The French armies were
defeated by land; the French fleets were beaten at sea.
The troops of the enemy had been removed from North
America, and so powerless was France on the ocean that,
even if success should crown her arms on the European
continent, where the Seven Years' War was still raging,
it would be impossible for her to transport a new force
to America.
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