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The Pontiac Manuscript
Wednesday, the 11th of May, Pontiac, like a good general, ordered thirty of his young men to lie in ambuscade in the surroundings of the fort to take every Englishman prisoner who should come out, and from time to time shoot at the little bark, while he and the other chiefs would go to the other side to give orders for an attack upon the fort. His people did as they were told, and for this purpose took a position in the suburb, which was built northeast of the fort at a distance of about two arpents, and which formed a good entrenchment for them. During this time, Pontiac, with four chiefs, Makatepelicite, Breten, Chavoinon, and his nephew, went through the woods in the rear of the fort, descended to the shore southwest of the fort and a little below the same, and visited all the settlers, especially the traders.
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