La Jonquiere’s remedy had been more heroic, for he had ordered Celeron to attack the English and their red allies alike; and he charged that officer with arrogance and disobedience because he had not done so.  It is not certain that obedience was easy; for though, besides the garrison of regulars, a strong body of militia was sent up to Detroit to aid the stroke,[64] the Indians of that post, whose co-operation was thought necessary, proved half-hearted, intractable, and even touched with disaffection.  Thus the enterprise languished till, in June, aid came from another quarter.  Charles Langlade, a young French trader married to a squaw at Green Bay, and strong in influence with the tribes of that region, came down the lakes from Michillimackinac with a fleet of canoes manned by two hundred and fifty Ottawa and Ojibwa warriors; stopped a while at Detroit; then embarked again, paddled up the Maumee to Raymond’s fort at the portage, and led his greased and painted rabble through the forest to attack the Demoiselle and his English friends.  They approached Pickawillany at about nine o’clock on the morning of the twenty-first.  The scared squaws fled from the cornfields into the town, where the wigwams of the Indians clustered about the fortified warehouse of the traders.  Of these there were at the time only eight in the place.  Most of the Indians also were gone on their summer hunt, though the Demoiselle remained with a band of his tribesmen.  Great was the screeching of war-whoops and clatter of guns.  Three of the traders were caught outside the fort.  The remaining five closed the gate, and stood on their defence.  The fight was soon over.  Fourteen Miamis were shot down, the Demoiselle among the rest.  The five white men held out till the afternoon, when three of them surrendered, and two, Thomas Burney and Andrew McBryer, made their escape.  One of the English prisoners being wounded, the victors stabbed him to death.  Seventy years of missionaries had not weaned them from cannibalism, and they boiled and eat the Demoiselle.[65]

[Footnote 64:  La Jonquiere a Celeron, 1 Oct. 1751.]

[Footnote 65:  On the attack of Pickawillany, Longueuil au Ministre, 18 Aout, 1752; Duquesne au Ministre, 25 Oct. 1752; Colonial Records of Pa., V. 599; Journal of William Trent, 1752.  Trent was on the spot a few days after the affair.]

The captive traders, plundered to the skin, were carried by Langlade to Duquesne, the new governor, who highly praised the bold leader of the enterprise, and recommended him to the Minister for such reward as befitted one of his station.  “As he is not in the King’s service, and has married a squaw, I will ask for him only a pension of two hundred francs, which will flatter him infinitely.”