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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
Pontiac told Parent that intimations of his design had been given to the commandant through an old squaw, who had communicated them to some Pawnee wenches in the fort, and that he had given the squaw a severe beating with his crosse (a stick used in playing ball) for her treachery.
Immediately after the commencement of the siege Pontiac removed his village across the river and encamped on Parent's Creek, near the residence of Mr. Meloche.
In the month of June or July an officer, who had wintered in the fort and gone to Niagara in the spring, was returning with reinforcements in a num ber of barges. They were met at Point au Pelee, where most of them were killed, and the boats, with the survivors, were brought up the river. They ascended on the opposite shore, and, when they reached a point opposite the fort, the men in the three hindmost boats formed the bold design of turning to a vessel which was anchored near the fort.
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