The Old Northwest

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Excerpt from The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and BeyondSir J efirey Amherst, to whom Vaudreuil sur rendered in 1760, forthwith dispatched to the western country a military force to take possession Of the posts still remaining in the hands of the French. The mission was entrusted to a stalwart New Hampshire scotch-irishman, Major Robert Rogers, who as leader of a band of intrepid rangers had made himself the hero of the north ern frontier. Two hundred men were chosen for the undertaking, and on the 13th of September the party, in fifteen whaleboats, started up the St. Lawrence for Detroit.At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, near the site of the present city of Cleveland, the travelers were halted by a band of Indian chiefs and warriors who, in the name of their great ruler Pontiac, de manded to know the object of their journeying. Parleys followed, in which Pontiac himself took part, and it was explained that the French had surrendered Canada to the English and that the English merely proposed to assume control of the western posts, with a view to friendly relations be tween the red men and the white men. The rivers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.