Excerpt from The War Chief of the Ottawas: A Chronicle of the Pontiac WarWaved over Quebec, Montreal, and Niagara, and was soon to be raised on all the lesser forts in the territory known as Canada. The Mississippi valley from the Illinois river south ward alone remained to France. Vincennes on the Wabash and Fort Chartres on the Mississippi were the only posts in the hinter land occupied by French troops. These posts were under the government of Louisiana but even these the American colonies were pre pared to claim, basing the right on their sea to sea charters.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.