Croghan had no further reason to continue his journey; so, accompanied by Pontiac, he went to Detroit.

Arriving there on August 17, he at once called a council of the tribes in the neighbourhood.

At this council sat Pontiac, among chiefs whom he had led during the months of the siege of Detroit.

But it was no longer the same Pontiac: his haughty, domineering spirit was broken; his hopes of an Indian empire were at an end.
'Father,' he said at this council, 'I declare to all nations that I had made my peace with you before I came here; and I now deliver my pipe to Sir William Johnson, that he may know that I have made peace, and taken the king of England to be my father in the presence of all the nations now assembled.' He further agreed to visit Oswego in the spring to conclude a treaty with Sir William Johnson himself.

The path was now clear for the advance of the troops to Fort Chartres.