. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. Indian chief is learned from an account of an Indian trader namedAlexander Henry, who, in the Spring of 1761, penetrated his domains asfar as Missillimacnac. Pontiac was then a great friend of the French,but a bitter foe of the English, whom he considered as encroaching on hishunting grounds. Henry was obliged to disguise himself as a Canadianto insure safety, but was discovered by Pontiac, who bitterly reproachedhim and the English for their attempted subjugation of the West. Hedeclared that no treaty had been made with them; no pres
. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. Indian chief is learned from an account of an Indian trader namedAlexander Henry, who, in the Spring of 1761, penetrated his domains asfar as Missillimacnac. Pontiac was then a great friend of the French,but a bitter foe of the English, whom he considered as encroaching on hishunting grounds. Henry was obliged to disguise himself as a Canadianto insure safety, but was discovered by Pontiac, who bitterly reproachedhim and the English for their attempted subjugation of the West. Hedeclared that no treaty had been made with them; no presents sentthem, and that he would resent any possession of the West by that was at the time about fifty years of age, tall and dignified, and wascivil and military ruler of the Ottawas, Ojibwas and Pottawatamies. The Indians, from Lake Michigan to the borders of North Carolina,were united in this feeling, and at the time of the treaty of Paris, ratifiedFebruary 10, 1763, a general conspiracy was formed to fall suddenly IHE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. i3. PONTIAC, THE OTTAWA CHIEFTAIN. 44 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. upon the frontier British posts, and with one blow strike every man was the marked leader in all this, and was the commanderof the Chippewas, Ottawas, Wyandots, Miamis, Shawanese, Delawaresand Mingoes, who had, for the time, laid aside their local quarrels to unitein this enterprise. The blow came, as near as can now be ascertained, on May 7, British posts fell, and the Indians drank, scooped up in the hollowof joined hands, the blood of many a Briton. Pontiacs immediate field of action was the garrison at , however, the plans were frustrated by an Indian woman disclosingthe plot the evening previous to his arrival. Everything was carried out,however, according to Pontiacs plans until the moment of action, whenMajor Gladwyn, the commander of the post, stepping to one of the Indianchiefs, suddenly drew aside his blanket and disclosed
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