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The Pontiac Manuscript
The commander, seeing that the Indians remained quiet, ordered a sally, which was made by Lieutenant Hay at the head of twenty men, to destroy an entrenchment which the Indians had made during the night southwest of the fort, two arpents from the gate. The Foxes and Hurons had come during the darkest part of the night, with wolf-like steps, to the enclosure of Mr. St. Martin, and had arranged pieces of timber, almost twenty feet long, putting them on the top of each other, two pieces deep, to the height of a man, and driven stakes on each side to keep the planks in position, so that hiding behind them they need not fear the balls of the cannon which stood opposite. The work was seen in the morning by the sentinel, who at once informed the commander, and the entrenchment was, so to speak, destroyed in its birth by the twenty soldiers, who burned the enclosure and put the planks against the fort, and then the ground was clear so that no one could approach the fort without being seen at least an arpent away during the night.
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