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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
The next day was fixed by Pontiac for the simultaneous attack on the British forts at Michillimackinac, St. Joseph and Fort Wayne. Of this arrangement the Indians had informed Thomas Gouin, the father of the narrator, and the brother of Monsieur Bellaitre, the French commandant. Mr. Thomas Gouin sent to Major Campbell a messenger, Jacques Chovin, on the morning appointed for the council, with directions to desire him not to suffer the Indians to enter the fort, to inform him that treacherous designs were entertained by Pontiac and his followers, and that the pretended council was but a covering for them. The same advice was given to the commandant by his interpreters who were Frenchmen.
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