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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
The garrison was supplied from time to time with provisions by the in-
habitants, who floated down the river in canoes to the schooner, having a small lantern which they exhibited as a signal to the naval officer. Dark, foggy nights were selected for this purpose, and thus the garrison was supplied for about two months after the battle, when the Indians, finding that so far from reducing the garrison to starvation they were themselves starving, proposed to Pontiac to make peace. He refused to go to any council for the purpose, but told the chiefs that as necessity compelled them to abandon the siege, he would not only consent to it, but advised them to do so.
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