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The Pontiac Manuscript
JOURNAL OR HISTORY OF A CONSPIRACY BY THE INDIANS AGAINST THE ENGLISH, AND OF THE SIEGE OF THE FORT DETROIT, BY FOUR DIFFERENT NATIONS, BEGINNING ON THE 7TH OF MAY, 1763.
Pontiac, great chief of all the Ottawas, Sauteux, Foxes, and of all the nations of the lakes and rivers of the north, a haughty, vindictive, war-like and easily offended man, on pretence 'of some insult which he claimed to have received from Mr. Gladwyn, commander of the fort, calculated that, because he was great chief of all the nations of the north, no one but himself and those of his nations should inhabit this part of the earth, where for some sixty years and more the French had made 'their home for the facilities of trade with them, and where the English had ruled for three years by reason of the conquest of Canada.
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