Three soldiers, who were outside the fort, rushed for the gate, but they were tomahawked before they could reach it.

The gate was immediately closed, and the nine soldiers within the fort made ready for resistance.

With the Indians were two Frenchmen, Jacques Godfroy, whom we have met before as the ambassador to Pontiac in the opening days of the siege of Detroit, and one Miny Chesne; [Footnote: This is the only recorded instance, except at Detroit, in which any French took part with the Indians in the capture of a fort.

And both Godfroy and Miny Chesne had married Indian women.] and they had an English prisoner, a trader named John Welsh, who had been captured and plundered at the mouth of the Maumee while on his way to Detroit.

The Frenchmen called on the garrison to surrender, pointing out how useless it would be to resist and how dreadful would be their fate if they were to slay any Indians.
Without a leader, and surrounded as they were by a large band of savages, the men of the garrison saw that resistance would be of no avail.