1765.
RUIN OF THE INDIAN CAUSE.
_Mission of Croghan._--_Plunder of the Caravan._--_Exploits of the
Borderers._--_Congress at Fort Pitt._--_Fraser's Discomfiture._--
_Distress of the hostile Indians._--_Pontiac. His desperate
Position._--_Croghan's Party attacked._--_Croghan at Ouatanon._--_His
Meeting with Pontiac._--_Pontiac offers Peace._--_Croghan reaches
Detroit._--_Conferences at Detroit._--_Peace Speech of Pontiac._--
_Results of Croghan's Mission._--_The English take Possession of the
Illinois._ 475