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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
The vessel mentioned by Mrs. Meloche was the only one at the fort during the whole siege. It was there at the commencement of the siege and formed the only guard in front of the town, there being no pickets on the water side.
Pontiac was anxious to set fire to this, that he might enter the fort in that way. This he attempted by constructing a raft on Parent's Creek, upon which a great quantity of old bark and other combustible matter was piled up loosely. Then a few desperate men got upon the raft in a dark night, and having guided it to the vessel and attached it there, they set fire in a great many places at the same time.
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