"Pontiac" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lakes. On the seventh of November they reached the mouth of the Cuyahoga, where the beautiful city of Cleveland now stands. The cross of St. George had never penetrated the wilderness so far before. Here they encamped and were soon after waited upon by messengers from the great chieftain Pontiac, asking by what right they entered upon his territory and the object of their visit. Rogers informed them of the downfall of the French in America, and that he had been sent to take possession of the French forts surrendered to the English by the terms of the capitulation. ...
— Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 4, January, 1885 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various
... the ring was the Ottawa chief, Pontiac, a man at that time fifty years old, who had brought eighteen savage nations under his dominion, so that they obeyed his slightest word. With majestic sweep of the limbs he whirled through the pantomime of ...
— Heroes of the Middle West - The French • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... Pontiac's conspiracy. 2. The battle of Marathon. 3. The Boston tea party. 4. The battle of Bannockburn. 5. Sherman's march to the sea. 6. Passage ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
... this idea. The structure obtruded a bowed front to the street, with a curving line of small windows, surmounted by elaborate carvings and scroll work of vines and leaves, while below, in faded gilt letters, appeared the legend "Pontiac—Marseilles." The effect of ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... years as a teacher, and was married and removed to Pontiac, Michigan, in 1845. During her married life she resided in several States, but principally ...
— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett
... have we seen in modern times to equal the famous Indian league which, under the direction of the celebrated Pontiac, a Chieftain only surpassed by Tecumseh, consigned so many of the European posts to destruction, along this very line of district, about the middle of the last century. It has been held up as a reproach to us, that we have principally subjected ourselves to ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... during the war, he stood erect and, pointing his long arm toward the southeast, said, "Ahneota fought Braddock. At Bushy Run his bullets made white men sleep, but Colonel Bouquet was wise and fooled Indians. Ahneota go with Pontiac, and cut off his gun so to hide it under his blanket and go inside Fort Detroit. He was a chief at Bloody Run. The French promise much. They make fool of Indian and tell him Great Father across big water had slept, but was awake and would come and help his friends, the red men, and ...
— Rodney, the Ranger - With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield • John V. Lane
... The Battle of the Strong. The Translation of a Savage. An Adventurer of the North. When Valmond came to Pontiac. The Right of Way. Donovan Pasha. The Seats ...
— Franklin Kane • Anne Douglas Sedgwick |
