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The Pontiac Manuscript
This was answered by another cannon-shot, for the barges had four small cannons or
swivel-guns mounted at the beak of as many barges, also two small six-pound mortars. Upon this answer, the commander, with Captain Hopkins, two lieutenants, and ten soldiers, embarked in one of the vessels which I have mentioned above and went to meet the barges, which were twenty-two in number, and contained two hundred and eighty regulars and six artillery men, under command of an aide-de-camp of General Amherst. When these barges passed in front of the villages of the Hurons and Foxes, they were saluted by some musket shots from these two nations, which wounded fifteen dangerously in the body, two of them mortally, and others in the arms and hands but slightly.
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