THE 



CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC, 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



1763. 

 FRONTIER FORTS AND SETTLEMENTS. 



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. 



In 1763, the British settlements did not extend 

 beyond, the Alleghanies. In the province of New 

 York, they reached no farther than the German 

 Flats, on the Mohawk. In Pennsylvania, the town 



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