Again he broke his plighted word and plotted a new confederacy, greater than the Three Fires, and sent messengers with wampum belts and red hatchets to all the tribes as far south as the mouth of the Mississippi and as far north as the Red River.

But his glory had departed.

He could call; but the warriors would not come when he summoned them.
Fort Detroit was freed from hostile Indians, and the soldiers could go to rest without expecting to hear the call to arms.

But before the year closed it was to be the witness of still another tragedy.

Two or three weeks after the massacre at the Devil's Hole, Major Wilkins with some six hundred troops started from Fort Schlosser with a fleet of bateaux for Detroit.