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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
Mr. Pettier was absent for some time just before the battle of the bridge, in search of some horses of his father. He does not know anything about the arrival of reinforcements before the battle, nor does he know how many troops were in the fort at the commencement of the siege.
About ten or eleven o'clock on the night preceding the battle, about five hundred men, under the command of an aide of Major Gladwin, marched up the river on the old river road to Parent's Creek, accompanied by three batteaux, containing twenty or thirty men. Some of the spies reported that the troops had gone by way of the woods, and most of the Indians rushed in great haste to meet them.
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