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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
Above this bridge, and on the eastern or upper bank, lived Francois Meloche, the brother of our narrator's father-ih-law. He had a garden on the road, which was surrounded by pickets. Behind these pickets and a large quantity of cord wood, which they had collected, the Indians, to the number of a thousand or fifteen hundred (perhaps less, perhaps more, ) were concealed.
The British forces began to cross the bridge, knowing that the Indians were near, but quite unconscious that they were so close. When they had all got upon the bridge, the Indians commenced their attack. It was just at daybreak, and yet dark, when Mrs. Meloche heard the firing.
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