The town of Detroit is in lat.

42 deg.

15' north, and long.

82 deg.

33' west.
About the year 1763, Detroit, then indeed the far west, and containing a garrison of 300 men, was nearly captured by stratagem by Pontiac, the celebrated Indian chief of that day, who waged war against the British, and whose alliance, before the capture of Quebec by Wolfe, in 1759, was anxiously courted by both the French and English.[53] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 51: The 49th British regiment assisted at the reduction of this fort in July, 1759.] [Footnote 52: James' Military Occurrences of the late War between Great Britain and the United States, 2 vols.