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Early Detroit
who, however, was compelled to treat them with mildness, as his whole force consisted of but thirty Frenchmen and eight Miami Indians, and his ordnance of two swivels. They were insolent; claimed the country as their own, and killed the poultry and other animals of the French, who dared to offer no resistance, but when they ventured to come in the fort to kill an inhabitant, Du Buisson could no longer restrain himself, but took arms and drove them from the immediate vicinity, but they intrenched themselves within easy musket shot.
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