United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . f1763, this sagacious warrior, doubting the possibility of a peace be-tween the rival nations, conceived the design of uniting all the Indiantribes from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi in an overwhelming 278 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. confederacy, which should upon a given day strike all the Englishforts upon the frontier a deadly blow, and sweep away in a commonruin every English family west of the mountains. The plot was con-structed with
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . f1763, this sagacious warrior, doubting the possibility of a peace be-tween the rival nations, conceived the design of uniting all the Indiantribes from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi in an overwhelming 278 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. confederacy, which should upon a given day strike all the Englishforts upon the frontier a deadly blow, and sweep away in a commonruin every English family west of the mountains. The plot was con-structed with the White mans skill and the Red mans cunning. The7th of May, 1763, was named as the day of destruction. But whenthe time came the impatient savage tribes were unable to act in per-fect concert, and ultimate failure was the consequence, though theimmediate result was terribly disastrous. Pontiac reserved for himself the most difficult task of all—thecapture of Detroit. But in the hour of impending doom, womanslove interposed to save the garrison from butchery. An Indian girlof the Ojibwa nation, came to the fort with a pair of moccasins for. Major Gladwyn, the commandant, and in parting with him manifestedunusual agitation and distress. She was seen to linger at the streetcorner, and the sentinel summoned her to return to the majors quar-ters. There, after much persuasion and many assurances of protec-tion, she yielded to his urgent inquiries into the cause of her griefand revealed the plot. When Pontiacs band on the following dayattempted to gain the fort by treachery, they found every soldier andcitizen under arms and ready to receive them. Then followed aprotracted siege, and the savage horde was finally driven off. But TWO YEARS OF SUCCESSES. 279 in all other quarters the attacks were attended with the most fatalresults. On the 16th of May Fort Sandusky was taken and burned,and the garrison butchered by a band of Wyandots. A few dayslater Fort St. Joseph suffered a simil
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