The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada

CHAPTER XXIX.

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1763-1765.

PONTIAC RALLIES THE WESTERN TRIBES.

_Cession of French Territory in the West._--_St. Louis._--_St. Ange de Bellerive._--_Designs of Pontiac._--_His French Allies._--_He visits the Illinois._--_His great War-belt._--_Repulse of Loftus._--_The English on the Mississippi._--_New Orleans in 1765._--_Pontiac's Embassy at New Orleans._ 462