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The Pontiac Manuscript
The Indians had been moving about so much in the action of the day that in the evening they were very tired, and, seeking repose, they slept all night and most of the morning. The commander, who expected to be attacked in the early morning and who, with his officers, had passed all night awake on the bulwarks for giving his orders and for fear of surprise, seeing the Indians quiet, ordered the ruin of the intrenchments of the Indians to be burnt. For this purpose Mr. Hopkins, captain of a new company and a good soldier, went out at the head of forty men, all volunteers, armed to the teeth, and put fire to the suburb which was soon consumed, excepting only two houses which the fire could not reach. He returned immediately to the fort to give another officer a chance for a similar expedition in another direction, which was done by Mr. Hay, lieutenant of the American troops,
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