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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pontiac, (search)
res, Shawnees, Ontagamies, Chippewas, Pottawattomies, Mississagas, Foxes, and Winnebagoes. These had been allies of the French. The Senecas, the most westerly of the Six Nations, joined the confederacy, but the other tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy (q. v.) were kept quiet by Sir William Johnson. It was arranged for a simultaneous attack to be made along the whole frontier of Pennsylvania and Virginia. The conspiracy was unsuspected until it was ripe and the first blow was struck, in June, 1763. English traders scattered through the frontier regions were plundered and slain. At almost the same instant they attacked all of the English outposts taken from the French, and made themselves masters of nine of them, massacring or dispersing the garrisons. Forts Pitt, Niagara, and Detroit were saved. Colonel Bouquet saved Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg); Niagara was not attacked; and Detroit, after a long siege by Pontiac in person, was relieved by Colonel Bradstreet in 1764. The Indians
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presque Isle, Fort (search)
Presque Isle, Fort Was the chief point of communication between Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg) and Fort Niagara. It was on the site of Erie, Pa., and in June, 1763, was garrisoned by twenty-four men. On the 20th it was attacked by Indians, and, after defending it two days, the commander, paralyzed by terror, surrendered the post. Several of the garrison were murdered, and the commander and a few others were carried to Detroit. Here was erected one of the chain of French forts in the wilderness which excited the alarm and jealousy of the English colonists in America and the government at home. It was intended by the French as an important entrepot of supplies for the interior forts.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
the Senecas to the Delawares, and they to the Shawnees, and the Shawnees to the Miamis Speech made by the chief of the Miamis Indians at the delivery of the belt of wampum, sent to them from the Shawnee nation, at Fort Miamis, 30 March, 1763. This belt we received from the Shawnees, and they received it from the Delawares, and they from the Senecas. and Wyandots, whose chiefs, slain in battle by the English, were still unavenged, Speech of Hudson, a Cayuga chief, to Captain Ourry, in June, 1763. until every Where, from the falls of Niagara and the piny declivities of the Alleghanies to the whitewood forests of the Mississippi Speech of Tamarois, chief of the Kaskaskias, to Fraser, in April, 1765. and the borders of Lake Superior, all the nations concerted to rise and put the English to death. Speech of the Miamis Indians, of 30 March, 1763. A prophetic spirit was introduced among the wigwams. A chief of the Abenakis persuaded first his own tribe, and then the red men o
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 28: (search)
Assembly, and other things necessary to the Settlement of Canada: indorsed, Relative to the Present State of Quebec, 17 May, 1767. The paper seems to have been drafted by an Under Secretary for Lord Shelburne's consideration; perhaps by L. Macleane. and Council. But the more Shelburne showed his good disposition towards America, the more the Court spoke of him as an enemy. Grafton's Autobiography. The King had long been persuaded Compare Secretary Calvert to Lieut. Gov. Sharpe, June, 1763. that the Colonies shared in the licentious- Chap. Xxviii} 1767. Feb. ness of opinion, which he thought was infusing itself into all orders of men; and that a due obedience and submission to law must in all cases go before the removal of grievances. Otherwise, said he, we shall soon be no better than the savages. King to Conway, 20 Sept. 1766, 8 minutes past 9 P. M. He was now accustomed to talk a great deal about America; Bristol to Chatham, 9 Feb. 1767; Chat. Corr. III. 199. and