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The Pontiac Manuscript
In consequence of these disclosures the Indians were posted and kept on their guard. Not to be surprised, they left their women and children in a hiding place outside of the camp, leaving in their camp only the old men, and, knowing the hour when the Englishmen would start, they came to meet them in two bands. One band, two hundred and fifty strong, came through the woods along the settlements and laid in ambush on the estate of Mr. Chauvin, which is twenty arpents from the fort. The other band, comprising one hundred and sixty men, laid in ambush on the place of Mr. Baptiste Meloche, where formerly their camp had been, and where they had made entrenchments that were even bullet proof, and waited for the English, who had no idea that the Indians knew of their plans, and advanced hurriedly and without order.
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