The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War, Vol. 2 WE have followed the war to its farthest confines, and watched it in its remotest operations, not because there is any thing especially worthy to. Be chronicled in the capture of a backwoods fort, and the slaughter of a few soldiers, but because these acts exhibit some of the characteristic traits of the actors. It was along the line of the British fron tier that the war raged with its most destructive violence. To destroy the garrisons, and then turn upon the settlements, had been the original plan of the Indians, and while Pontiac was pushing the siege of Detroit, and the smaller interior posts were treacherously assailed. The tempest was gath ering which was soon to burst along the whole frontier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.