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Early Detroit
The Foxes sued for mercy, but the Indian allies would listen to no terms. " I was touched with compassion, " says Du Buisson, "but war and pity do not agree together. " On the night of the nineteenth day, in the rain, the Foxes escaped, and took refuge on a point running into
Lake St. Clair, a few miles above the city. The French and their allies followed and attacked them, and at the first onset lost twenty men. They then commenced a regular siege, which lasted four days—a hundred canoes carrying the provisions.
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