Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-03-13

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their ambush, and allowed Madeleine
to escort the neWcomers-a settler
named Fontaine and his psrty-into
] the fort gates unhurt. She had hoped
for this, and was overjoyed st her sue.
cess. Her garrison now numbered
six. She goes on. f,.-.s ..v..
Strengthened by this reinforce.
ment, l ordered that the enemy should
be fired on whenever they showed
themselves. After sunset violent
northeast wind began to blow, &C.
companied by snow and hail, which
told US that we should have terrible
night. The Iroquois were all this
time lurking about us, and l judged
by their movements that instead of be-
ing deferred by the storm they would
climb into the fort under cover Of the
darkness. / assembled all my troops,
THAT is to say six persons, and spoke
to them thus: "God has saved US to.
day from the hand of our foes, but we
must take care not to fall into their
snsres tonight. AS for me l want
you to see that l am not afraid. l
will take charge of the fort with the
old man (she adds that he was 80
and had never fred a gun, but he
could probable carry an alarm; and
you, Pierre Fontaine, with La Bonita
and Gacket, go to the block house with
the women and Children, because that
is the strongest place; and if l am ia,
ken don't surrender, even il l am cut
to pieces and burned before your eyes.
The enemy cannot hurt you in the
block house, if you make the least
show of fight"
II placed my young brothers on two
of the bastions, the old man on the
third, and I took the fourth; and all
night, in spite of wind, snow and hail,
the cres of 'All's we'll 7 were kept up
from the block house to the fort, and
from the fort to the block house. One
would have thought that the place was
full of soldiers The Iroquois be-
lieved SO, and were completely de-
ceived, as they confessed afterwards to
M. de Callieres, to whom they told
that they had held council to make
a plan for capturing the fort in the
night, but had done nothing because
such constant watch was Kept. 4
ttAbout o'clock in the morning tbs
sentinel (the old many on the bastion
by the gate called out, "Mademoisell,
l hear something" I went to him to
tind out what it was, and by the help
of the snow which covered the ground
l could see in the darkness number
OF cattle, the miserable remnant that
the Iroquois had left us. The others
wanted to open the gate and let them
in, but l answered, No. You don't
know all the tricks of the savages.
They are no doubt following the cat
tle, covered with skins of such AMI
mails, so as to get into the fort If we
are foolish enough to open the gates
for them. Nevertheless, after taking
every precaution, l decided that we
might open it without risk.
"At last the daylight came again,
and as the darkness disappeared our
anxiety seemed to disappear with it.
Everybody took courage, excepting
Nine. Marguerite, wife of the Sieur
Fontaine, who, being extremely timid,
as all Parisian women are asked her
husband to carry her to another fort.
CA silly request certainly He said,
Il will never abandon this fort while
Mile Madeleine is here answered
him that I woold rather die than give
it up to the enemy, and that it was of
the greatest importance that they.
should never get possession of any
French fort, because if they took one
they would think they could get 9th
ers, and would grow more bold and
presumptuous than ever. ri -g- f,i. ed
II may say, with truth, that 1 did
not eat or sleep for twice twenty-four
hours did not 60 once into my
fathers house, but kept always on the
bastion or went to the block house to
see how the people there were behav-
ing, l always kept cheerful and
smiling. face, and encouraged my little
company with the hope Of speedy sue.
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awe were one weak in constant
alarm, with the enemy always about
US. At last M. de- Ia. sMonnerie,
Lieutenant, sent by NJ. de GALLERIES,
arrived In the, night with forty. men.
He came down the riverl AS, he
did not know whether the fort was
taken or not he approached IS silently
as possible. One of our sentinels
hearing slight sound, cried, "who
goes there7" 1 was at the time doz.
ing with my head on a table and my
gun lying across my arms. The sem
tinel told me that he heard voice
from the river: [ went up, at once to
see whether it was Indians or French.
men. demanded T. "Who goes
there?"' One Of them replied: 1--WE
are Frenchmen; it is De Ia Monnerie,
come to bring you help I caused
the gate to be opened, placed a senti.
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