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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Two accounts of Pontiac of the Ottawa
This book contains two accounts of Pontiac, the great Ottawa chief
of the eighteenth century American colonial period. After the end
of the French and Indian War there was, irrespective of the
treaties made, no peace on the frontiers of the New World. The
indigenous Indian tribes-broadly the Huron and Iroquois-had made
their allegiances with the British or the French according to their
loyalties and those were not readily to be curtailed. Pontiac rose
in rebellion and conspired with his allies to destroy the British
and American settlers on the frontier, burning outposts and
outlying forts and putting their defenders to the knife. His tactic
of deception worked well for a time culminating in the significant
Battle of Bloody Run. However, when his forces came up against the
substantial defences of fortified Detroit, its defenders were not
taken in by his ruse and his failure to take the fort by assault
ultimately contributed to his undoing. These two accounts are quite
different in their character, One concentrates primarily on the
culmination of his career with the great 'Conspiracy' and the other
takes an over view of the chiefs life generally to give the reader
context. Also included is a little known play by the famous ranger,
Robert Rogers, that lends a first hand perspective to the events
described herein. Available in softcover and hardcover with dust
jacket.
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