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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
In the same month of August, Major Gladwin, finding that every attempt to reinforce the garrison by means of batteaux, was defeated by Pontiac, who caused them to be intercepted, sent the Beaver, a small armed schooner which was lying at the fort, to Niagara for troops. She returned in the same month, bringing three hundred troops, who were stowed in the vessel and three small boats alongside. This was the only reinforcement which reached the fort that season.
At twelve o'clock in the night succeeding the arrival of this detachment, the troops composing it, headed by their commanding officer, whose name Mr. St. Aubin did not learn, marched out of the fort, with a view to attack the Indians in their encampment.
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