n she saw how little after all, the greatest, as
Bismarck says, can control events.

FOOTNOTES:

[44] _Macbeth_, ii, 3. That is, the nearer in relationship the heirs of
power to the source of their inheritance, the greater their danger at
the hands of bloody usurpers (like Macbeth).--ED.

CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC

A.D. 1763

E.O. RANDALL

With the fall of Quebec and De Vaudreuil's capitulation of Montreal,
Canada passed from the dominion of France to Britain, and for a time
came under military rule. In the West, around the shores of the
Great Lakes and the country watered by the Ohio, though small
English garrisons occupied the forts of the region, the French still
held posts on the Wabash and the Mississippi, and had a considerable
settlement at New Orleans. About the Lakes and in the Ohio Valley
discontent smouldered among the Indians, many of whom bewailed the
fate of their old allies, the French, while they feared the English,
whom they dreaded as likely to drive them from their hunting-grounds
and treat them with injustice or neglect.

Their fears in this respect were worked upon and disaffection among
them was fomented by French traders from Montreal and St. Louis; the
results of which were presently seen in the rising of all the
Western tribes under the wily leadership of Pontiac, chief of the
Ottawa warriors, who sought to exterminate the English and restore
the supremacy of the French and Indian races. The incidents of this
conspiracy of Pontiac are related in an edifying paper by the Hon.
E.O. Randall, of Columbus, Ohio, contributed to the _Transactions_
of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, and here, by kind
permission, reproduced.

The conquest of Canada left the Indians of the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys subject to British domination. The red men were repulsed but not
conquered. They were scattered over a vast territory; their total number
between the Mississippi on the west, the ocean on the east, between the
Ohio on the south, and the Great Lakes on the north was probably not in
excess of two hundred thousand, and their fighting warriors not more
than ten thousand.[45] Fort Duquesne was in November, 1758, captured
from the French by the British forces under General John Forbes. The
military posts of the French in the East, on the waters of Lake Erie and
the Allegheny, viz., Presqu'ile, Le Boe