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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
She demanded the reason but received no satisfaction. They merely told her that the guns were more convenient in that form and were thought to shoot better. She returned to her home, and on the following morning went to Mr. LaButte, her cousin and an interpreter in the fort, and related to him what she had seen. Mr. LaButte answered that a rumor already existed that the Indians intended to attack the fort, that the commandant, Major Gladwin, who had been at the post but seven or eight days, and had come to relieve Major Campbell, would not believe the report, but that the circumstances which she, Mrs. St. Aubin, had just related, convinced him the danger was near.
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