On 27 April 1763 Chief Pontiac convened a council of more
than 400 Ottawa, Huron and Potawatomi leaders and citizens
at River Ecorses to discuss their treatment at the hands
of the British.
On 7 May 1763 Pontiac led his men to Fort
Detroit. The soldiers greeted him with their guns at the
ready. Pontiac withdrew.
On 9 May 1763 he returned with sixty-five
canoes, ordering his men to kill any English but to spare
the French.
Pontiac’s war had begun. |
