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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
From Miami Pontiac went to Fort Chartres, on the Illinois. In a few years the British, who had possession of the fort, procured an Indian of the Peoria nation to kill him. The news spread like lightning through the country. The Indians assembled in great numbers, attacked and destroyed all the Peorias except about thirty families, which were received into the fort. These soon began to increase, they removed to the Wabash and were about to settle when the Northern Indians collected in the winter, surrounded their villages and killed the whole, excepting a few children who were saved as prisoners. Old Mr. Gouin was. there at the time. He was a trader, and when the attack commenced was ordered by the Indians to shut his house and not suffer a Peoria to enter.
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