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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
Another pressed forward and met the same fate, and the passage by the bridge having been unsuccessfully attempted several times, the troops began to retreat, marching backward and fighting until they reached the place now occupied by Col. Edwards, when the Indians, who had followed on the inside of the pickets, ceased firing, and the soldiers
resumed a regular march.
They did not lose many men in the retreat. The last persons killed were seven soldiers who had stolen from the column in the march upward and entered the house of Mr. Jacques Campau, at the little chapel, where they found a traveling box belonging to Lapelle, who was in the barges, and they got drunk upon the liquor contained in it.
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