A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond
Volume 19 of the
Chronicles of America Series
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Allen Johnson, Editor
Assistant Editors
Gerhard R. Lomer
Charles W. Jefferys
Abraham Lincoln Edition
New Haven: Yale University Press
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1919
ii Copyright, 1919
by Yale University Press
| Chapter | Chapter Title | Page |
|---|---|---|
| I. | Pontiac's Conspiracy | 1 |
| II. | "A Lair of Wild Beasts" | 20 |
| III. | The Revolution Begins | 41 |
| IV. | The Conquest Completed | 57 |
| V. | Wayne, The Scourge Of The Indians | 76 |
| VI. | The Great Migration | 97 |
| VII. | Pioneer Days and Ways | 110 |
| VIII. | Tecumseh | 131 |
| IX. | The War Of 1812 And The New West | 151 |
| X. | Sectional Cross Currents | 172 |
| XI. | The Upper Mississippi Valley | 189 |
| Bibliographical Note | 211 | |
| Index | 215 |
Pontiac's Conspiracy
The fall of Montreal, on September 8, 1760, while the plains about the city were still dotted with the white tents of the victorious English and colonial troops, was indeed an event of the deepest consequence to America and to the world. By the articles of capitulation which were signed by the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Governor of New France, Canada and all its dependencies westward to the Mississippi passed to the British Crown. Virtually ended was the long struggle for the dominion of the New World. Open now for English occupation and settlement was that vast country lying south of the Great Lakes between the Ohio and the Mississippi—which we know as the Old Northwe