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CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC

AND THE

INDIAN WAR

AFTER

THE CONQUEST OF CANADA.

BY

FRANCIS PARKMAN.

NINTH EDITION, REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS.

VOL. IL

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

1893

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

FRANCIS PARKMAN,

if the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

UNIVERSITY PRESS JOHN WILSON & SON,
CAMBRIDGE.

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Extent of British Settlements in 1763. - Forts and Military Routes.

Advice.

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Slaughter of Traders. - Fort

Situation of Fort Pitt.

Indian

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Reply of Ecuyer. - News from Presqu' Isle. — Fate

of Le Bœuf.-Fate of Venango. - Danger of Fort Pitt. -

Council with the Delawares. - Threats of the Commandant.

General Attack

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CHAPTER XIX.

1763.

THE WAR ON THE BOrders.

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Panic among the Settlers. - Embarrassments of Amherst. - Colonel

Bouquet. His Correspondence with the Commander-in-Chief.

- Proposal to infect the hostile Indians with Small-pox.

Captain Ourry.-Lieutenant Blane. Frontier War. - Alarm

at Carlisle. Scouting Parties. — Ambuscade on the Tusca-

rora.- The Dying Borderer.

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Scenes at Carlisle

CHAPTER XX.

1763.

PAGE

28

THE BATTLE OF BUSHY RUN.

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The Army of Bouquet. -Dangers of his Enterprise. - Fort Ligo-

nier relieved. Bouquet at Fort Bedford.. March of his

Troops. Unexpected Attack. - The Night Encampment.

The Fight resumed.

- Conflict of the second Day. - Successful

Stratagem. Rout of the Indians.

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Pitt.-Fffects of the Victory

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Bouquet reaches Fort

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