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Next came tidings of the massacres at Fort Ouatanon on the Wabash River and at Fort Miamis, on the Maumee. Nor was the tale of fire and blood yet ended. A fugitive from the camp of Pontiac reached Detroit one afternoon. It proved to be Ensign Christie, the commanding officer at Presqu' Isle, near the eastern end of Lake Erie. His story was a thrilling one.
Fort Sandusky, at the west end of Lake Erie; Fort Ouatanon, on the Wabash, a little south of where Lafayette, in the state of Indiana, now stands; Fort Miami, Presqu' Isle, Le Boeuf, Venango, on the eastern border, and Michilimackinac, on the straits, were all taken by the Indians.
They thought that the English must indeed be powerful, and were glad that they had taken Pontiac's advice and remained, for the time being, friendly. Detroit taken, it was at that time but a straggling village with a rude palisade, a detachment was sent to the south, to occupy Fort Miami and Fort Ouatanon, places of lesser importance.
June 1, Fort Ouatanon, below Lafayette on the Wabash River in west central Indiana, had surrendered. A second Bloody Belt had been dispatched by Pontiac from Detroit; as fast as it arrived, the allies struck hard. Of twelve fortified English posts, eight fell.
All that chain of forts stretching from Lake Erie down to the Ohio Presqu' Isle, Le Boeuf, Venango, Ligonier had been given up to the English, as well as western posts Detroit, Fort Miami, Ouatanon on the Wabash, and Michilimackinac. The settlements on the Mississippi, however, still displayed the white flag of France.
Most of the Western forts were transferred to the English during the autumn of 1760; but the extreme Western settlements on the Illinois, viz., Forts Ouatanon, Vincennes, Kaskaskia, Chartres, and Cahokia, remained several years longer under French control.
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