A council was held, but as Campbell could get no satisfaction he suggested returning to the fort.

Thereupon Pontiac remarked: 'My father will sleep to-night in the lodges of his red children.' Campbell and McDougall were given good quarters in the house of Jean Baptiste Meloche.
For nearly two months they were to be kept close prisoners.
So far only part of the Wyandots had joined Pontiac: Father Potier had been trying to keep his flock neutral.
But on the 11th Pontiac crossed to the Wyandot village, and threatened it with destruction if the warriors did not take up the tomahawk.

On this compulsion they consented, no doubt glad of an excuse to be rid of the discipline of their priest.
Another attack on the fort was made, this time by about six hundred Indians; but it was as futile as the one of the earlier day.

Pontiac now tried negotiation.

He summoned Gladwyn to surrender, promising that the British should be allowed to depart unmolested on their vessels.