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The Pontiac Manuscript
They reckoned without their host.
Monday, May 9, being the first day of rogations, according to the custom of the church, the curate and all the clergy had a procession outside of the fort quite peacefully. Mass was celebrated in the same way, after which everybody went home to see how the day should pass, knowing well that Pontiac would make some other attempt. The good people moaned in secret at the evil fate which menaced them, for they had not much of a force. Their garrison consisted of about one hundred and thirty men, troops, including the officers, who were nine in number, and about forty men, traders and their employes.
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