. The home auxiliary and reference for teachers and students. treaty of Paris in1763, the tribes were informed thatFrance had ceded tlie country to GreatBritain, without asking their leave,there was widespread indignationamongst them. A vast confederacy wasformed for the purpose of attacking allof the English forts on the same day,west of the Alleghanies. At the head of this conspiracy wasa great Ottowa chief, Pontiac, thenabout fifty years of age. Every postwest of Oswego, excepting Niagara,Fort Pitt and Detroit, fell into the handsof the Indians. It was over a year be-fore the power of the I
. The home auxiliary and reference for teachers and students. treaty of Paris in1763, the tribes were informed thatFrance had ceded tlie country to GreatBritain, without asking their leave,there was widespread indignationamongst them. A vast confederacy wasformed for the purpose of attacking allof the English forts on the same day,west of the Alleghanies. At the head of this conspiracy wasa great Ottowa chief, Pontiac, thenabout fifty years of age. Every postwest of Oswego, excepting Niagara,Fort Pitt and Detroit, fell into the handsof the Indians. It was over a year be-fore the power of the Indian Confed-eracy was broken and chiefs of the hos-tile tribes sued for pardon and haughty Pontiac would not last, in 1769, this powerful Indianprince, who had almost unbounded swayover thousands of square miles of ter-ritory, was slain near Cahokia. A stroll-ing Indian was bribed by an Englishtrader to murder him. That savage, forthe gift of a barrel of rum, stole softlybehind Pontiac. in the forest, and buriedhis hatchet in his I ^ FIFTH PERIOD—THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE 139 FIFTH PERIOD THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE George the Third ascended tlie throneof England in ()ctoher, 1760. He wasborn in London, in 1738. In his reignof fifty years was the period in Enghshhistory most interesting to 1761 he discarded the wise and sa-gacious Wilham Pitt as his Prime Min-ister and chose for his counsellor andguide the Earl of Bute, with George(Irenville as his chancellor of the ex-chequer. This was a mistake that ledto lasting disasters to the realm. Theunwise policy advised by Bute, concern-ing the English-American colonies, en-gendered much of the ill-feeling towardthe mother country that led to a revo-lutionary war and the dismembermentof the British Empire. Butes idea concerning the .Vmericancolonies was that they should be broughtinto absolute subjection to the BritishParliament by force, if necessary, andto do this he advised the employmentof me
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