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MICHIGAN CHAPTER 11 Pontiac Plans to Wipe Out the English Invaders
he discussed it
with her neighbors and knowledge of the singular circumstance soon became public property.
There is a romantic story believed to have some foundation in fact, that Gladwin was told of the diabolical plot by a squaw who had come to his quarters to deliver a pair of moccasins which she had made upon his order. * She felt enough personal interest in him to try to save his life and though she did not know the details of the plan she was fully aware that a scheme was on foot to capture the fort by treachery. Being thus forewarned Gladwin ordered all his troops under arms and every man was on the alert against surprise. Pontiac came to the council with sixty of his chiefs, while his warriors swarmed through the Pottawatomie and Ottawa camps just outside the palisades. The chief and his warriors were admitted to the fort and they could not help seeing that on every side the troops were in arms and lined up ready for action. As the party seated themselves in the council house he also noticed that not only was every officer armed with sword but that each wore a brace of heavy pistols in his belt. The savages could not fail to see that the Englishmen could not be taken off their guard. Pontiac indulged in the usual oratorial effort in which he reiterated his professions of friendship for the English. Gladwin had arranged that while this performance was going on within doors there should be rolling of drums and a great clatter of arms just outside. This rude interruption and the unexpected look of things so disconcerted Pontiac that he failed to give the signal to his companions to rise up and attack the Englishmen.
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